#idea

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#chance #god #heads #i #idea

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#average #discuss #events #great minds #ideas

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. ↗

— Elihu Root

#authority #conduct #conformity #control #counsel

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#difference #ideas #only #people #superficial

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ambiguities #avoided #been #experience #idealism

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#ideal #like #marriage #mother

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe. ↗

— Frank Scott

#developing #europe #i #ideas #post

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#believe #campuses #college #college campuses #controversial

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. ↗

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

#against #aggression #allowed #any #categorically

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#citizen #compromises #everybody #family #his