#her

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

#defined #door #every #kind #morality

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. ↗

— Simone Weil

#her #humiliations #i #inflicted #more

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becomes #diseases #hitherto #like #more

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. ↗

— Simone Weil

#hero #heroine #must #oneself #order

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#ape #explore #going #hit #i

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#eventually #going #i #income #keep

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#depleted #distractions #feeling #get #hands

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#captain #city #cup #davis #davis cup

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#bigger #bury #corrected #fatal #get