#lia

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. ↗

— Celine Dion

#details #dreaming #familiar #into #keep

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

#event #familiar #persistent #prophecy #way

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#being #differently #divorced #enjoy #had

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

#australia #course #elizabeth #head #into

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. ↗

— John Donne

#humiliation #sanctification

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#father #friends #i #italians #know