#ld

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #empty #empty space #film #i

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

#avoid #contention #creating #discourses #inseparable

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#course #face #fighting #gay #majority

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#dad #dependent #fact #family #father

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #became #because #been #breakdown

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#does #leg #machine #make #man

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#along #did #feel #floating #go

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#always #beginning #comedy #end #everything

I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#fact #get-go #got #guy #had