#la

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#force #get #his #his way #i

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#always #certainty #clarity #fascinating #finds

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. ↗

— Jones Very

#almost #existence #instinctively #labors #life

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#anything #being #being the best #best #could

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#funny #funny

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. ↗

— John Clayton

#fact #god #grace #him #instructed

I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #funny #humor #relationships #wonder

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#family #georgian #island #russian #via

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#between #british #completely #different #different attitude