#gen

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#cheap #generosity #like #reputation

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#full #generally #often #pretty #revolt

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#call #different #different language #every #great

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#christmas #day #decorating #fondest #generally

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#british #commerce #confident #constant #constant flow

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination #intelligence #requires #true

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#alleviating #also #am #among #believe