#lit

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#beat #breaks #consists #head #knowledge

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue. ↗

— Amy Grant

#does #doing #enjoy #felt #find

Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as "daring," though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it. ↗

— G. K. Chesterton

#literature #courage

There was a part of me that was so horny, I wanted to climb on top of Randall on the first date. But there was also a part of me that was so terrified, I wanted to go home, put on my feety pajamas and hibernate for the winter. ↗

— Meredith Schorr

#dating #sex #dating

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade. ↗

— Norman Granz

#civil #civil rights #dealing #development #facade

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole. ↗

— Richard Grasso

#china #confidence #done #economic #financial

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#also #education #ever #greatest #had

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#beyond #care #come #doom #ills

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. ↗

— Benny Green

#anyway #booked #decided #different #different personalities

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#almost #also #been #dad #every