#id

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#between #contrast #democracy #forever #heroic

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea. ↗

— Alain Resnais

#even #film #happens #heads #i

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bargaining #chance #chances #conviction #first

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#even #i #kid #mid #still

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#appearances #era #financial #former #get

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad. ↗

— Paul Reubens

#bad #children #going #happens #i

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#did #first #hawk #i #know

I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#chance #end #get #good #had

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #first

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#life