#ill

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. ↗

— Diogenes

#intelligent #man #most #silly

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. ↗

— George Gissing

#beheld #creates #emotions #even #eyes

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#done #i #invited #mornings #performance

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it. ↗

— Otto Dix

#create #desire #doing #got #i

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#happened #historian #like #novelist #tell

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#effective #families #guarantee #health #know

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#break #break up #consequence #direction #false

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#debt #doing #every #first #history

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#course #duty #else #find #found