#la

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. ↗

— William Emerson

#conversation #engage #idle #man #planning

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#error #grave #imbalances #restrictions #trade

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. ↗

— William Empson

#long #makes #men #short #stakes

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#farce #humor #slapstick #universally #well

I'm a terrible trumpet player. ↗

— Ray Stevens

#player #terrible #trumpet

External nature is only internal nature writ large. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#internal #large #nature #only #writ

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#story #beauty

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah. ↗

— Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi

#fatalism #islam #quran #stoicism #worship

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#been #champion #dead #definitely #had