#great

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things. ↗

— Mencius

#limitations #morality #men

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#heroes #men

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#husbands #truth #men

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. ↗

— P.J. Sullivan

#greatness #historical #history #horses #men

Anybody who knows him, even all the girls, will tell you he's a great guy, and they'll do anything for him, right up until they want to kill him. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#great-guy #killing-motive #sam #motivational

You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#great-house #loneliness #nicole-krauss #movies

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#nature #prejudice #nature

...-compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

But the western mind can't bear an opt- out option. we're going to have to re-fight the Battle of the Little Bighorn to preserve the right to opt-out, or your grandchildren and mine will have no choice but to eat amalgamated, irradiated, genetically prostituted, bar-coded, adulterated fecal spam from the centralized processing conglomerate." Joel Salatin ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible. ↗

— Matthew A. Petti

#ancient-gods #book-of-revelation #great-pyramid #religion-and-science #religion