#hat

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ↗

— Rebecca West

#birds #cats #did #done #francis

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#different #mom #personality #somewhat #sort

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can. ↗

— David Ortiz

#better #body #career #feeling #feeling good

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. ↗

— George Orwell

#fighting #hatred #invariably #lies #people

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ↗

— George Orwell

#folly #hatred #issues #itself #keeping

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #class #hatred #internationalism #stronger

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#intelligent #make #masses #materials #might

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ↗

— George Orwell

#custard pie #dirty #every #funny #joke

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged. ↗

— George Osborne

#entitled #i #i believe #i believe that #judged

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse. ↗

— John Osborne

#god #heroes #high #ideas #made