#impress

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#freedom #image #impressions #peace #war

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#always #been #canada #could #country

I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the courtroom." Taylor took a sip of her drink and grinned. This one was easy. "I vowed to hate him forever." Jeremy's brown eyes twinkled at this. "That's exactly what I said nineteen years ago, five minutes after he first walked into our dorm room. ↗

— Julie James

#humor #romance #humor

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#hollywood #hype #i #impressed #new

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#been #choice #easy #i #impressed

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#deep #impression #leave #thousand #thousand words

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else. ↗

— William Ames

#anywhere #because #come #does #else

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#inspirational #life #memories #inspirational

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fake #false #illusion #impression #mask

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. ↗

— Alice Munro

#love #love