#here

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#day #discipline #emotion #every #every day

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#bitter #entropy #heretics #human #human thought

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#cast #compass #knows #like #loves

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. ↗

— Robert South

#conceal #given #men #mind #ordinary

I once saw the world’s ugliest baby drown. But then I realized, “That’s not a baby, that’s a log. And it’s not drowning, it’s burning.” I wonder what it did to deserve that? It was probably a heretic. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#burn #drown #funny #heretic #ugly

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#epigram #every #somewhere #world

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. ↗

— Hippocrates

#art #humanity #love #loved #medicine

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#because #bureau #bureaus #deeply #embedded

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here. ↗

— Max Baucus

#enough #fight #going #got #here

. . .the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what hold up the rest. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#friendship