#les

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#deal #demand #entitled #get #going

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#always #blessing #deciding #defect #everything

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #children #counsel #examples

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#important #incremental #intuitions #nature #new

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school? ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#become #before #begin #being #continue

The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave. ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

#country #duty #everything #given #got

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#automobiles #ban #central #city #fad

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#because #just #just because #own #people

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#distract #film #help #interest #less

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#both #country #different #different styles #electric