#idea

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. ↗

— Francis Wright

#associated #basis #beneficial #consequent #departure

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. ↗

— Francis Wright

#attaching #belief #consequent #ideas #merit

An idea is salvation by imagination. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#imagination #salvation

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them. ↗

— Gary Wright

#album #felt #happened #happy #i

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment. ↗

— Peter Wright

#avoid #being #bohemian #could #difficulties

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. ↗

— Esther Williams

#almost #everything #ideal #life #teenage

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#any #business #climate #everybody #frightening

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#always #closely #comfort #competing #costumes

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#around #back #coming #going #head