#ions

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? ↗

— Carter Glass

#american people #any #banks #country #debts

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. ↗

— Bernhard Goetz

#limelight #lunch #more #my time #options

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#creative #creative works #distribute #entertainment #entertainment industry

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected. ↗

— Rollo May

#change

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#certain #certain ways #ideas #movies #notions

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this. ↗

— Danny Glover

#because #caribbean #change #climate #climate change

Abominations. He did not say the last word aloud, but she felt something like pain echo through him, pity. “You sound like you know a lot about this kind of thing?” “You could say I have first hand experience.” Valdagerion was looking up at the tanks a dark twisted pain in his eyes. The expression made her heart pound with alarm. The alien was wounded, the kind of deep physiological wounds that could make a person very dangerous. ↗

— D.M. Alexandra

#alien-romance #caught-in-his-gravity #elves #experement #pain

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. ↗

— Jim Goad

#good intentions #hatred #intentions #more #powerful