#ill

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

#been #being #enough #girl #had

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #cruelty #further #just #level

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. ↗

— John le Carre

#betrayal #happen #love #love is #only

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ↗

— John le Carre

#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. ↗

— John le Carre

#happen #held #impunity #killed #states

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. ↗

— John le Carre

#ever #guess #i #i think #kill

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#appliances #control #internet #larger #mobile

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#inertia #leaps #life #like #rock

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #around #been #did #down