#icu

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#momentary #pleasure #position #ridiculous #sex

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bloc #christians #decades #evangelical #ignored

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

#always #been #particular #people #tyrants

I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#career #could #even #exploration #field

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#carriers #command #difficulty #duty #expedition

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#cia #covert #difficult #even #extraordinarily

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#civilization #difficult #into #marry #very

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#am #denying #grim #humanity #i

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature