#les

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#less #more #more and more #more or less #our

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#deep #deep inside #helpless #infant #innocent

You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#how #learn #lose #unless #win

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#i #i think #important #law #less

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#coolest #i #know #most #mother

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#animal #beginning #behavior #cross #human

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#i #most #other #played #roles

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#battles #beginning #british #came #century

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. ↗

— Scott Adams

#around #best #best way #better #buy