#let us

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#composers #everyone #everywhere #forget #greatest

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#behave #dead #let us #little #shall

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#bound #could #every #exist #experienced

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#economic strength #face #let us #money #more

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ↗

— James Thurber

#around #awareness #back #fear #forward

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. ↗

— Voltaire

#let us #life #make #only #theorizing

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey? ↗

— Roger Wicker

#about #allies #because #cause #did

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #atheist #calls #christian #conviction