#i

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #bud #ever #liberties

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#philosophy #wisdom #life

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #me #temper

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. ↗

— John Piper

#faith

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#his #life #loneliness #man

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#create #customers #does #done #job

I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#age

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. ↗

— Colum McCann

#death #endings #growing-older #living-life #problems

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#memories #prepared #share #you

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#reason #religion #equality