#insightful

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#insightful #poignant #life

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#nature

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#about #being #insightful #long #nothing

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #happened #hardly #humorous #insightful

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#behavior #film #funny #his #history

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#insightful #insight

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#insightful #humor

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men. ↗

— Paul erik Van Schaick

#men

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#insightful #inspirational #insult #humor