#fine

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#invest #our time #time #who #you

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. ↗

— John Dyer

#fine #i #life #majority #may

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#define #i #me #mother #much

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#about #define #each #i #nothing

It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#fine #glad #i #kind #me

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense