#eyed

The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster. ↗

— Ben Folds

#being #business #ends #group #individuals

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Matt Groening

#believe #did #everybody #everything #fine

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#flag #hoped #liberty #men #moneyed

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#articulation #become #connected #contained #controlled

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#attentively #being #completely #conveyed #feeling

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#christian #exclusion #favorite #few #god

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#angel #another #arrogant #bank #believe

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#act #conveyed #enough #false #lies

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#blue-eyed #bright #charming #children #deepest

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#american #around #artists #attitude #bit