#ex

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#experience

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. ↗

— Ernest Bramah

#although #cannot #conversation #cripple #elegant

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#ago #before #cool #create #ever

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#eye #fetish #i #just #patches

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#average #averages #case #day #good

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#cause #consequence #expression #health #productive

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ↗

— Eva Braun

#before #did #done #enclosed #end

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#bum #expression #impulse #life #maturity

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment. ↗

— Eva Braun

#arrive #coals #dr #every #expecting

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#clearly #environment #exciting #gift #individual