#lit

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#long #long run #me #more #polite

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#conceit #crisis #economics #events #financial

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#allowed #being #candidate #democracy #dislike

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ↗

— John Locke

#ask #attribute #been #conversing #descriptions

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#been #four #freedoms #hungry #hungry man

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#ability #according #does #our #stomach

My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#beautiful #her #i #i am #i do

I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip. ↗

— Kristanna Loken

#brazil #go #i #i think #like

Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor. ↗

— Herbert Lom

#asylum #doll #easy #effects #exposure

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#long #pennsylvania #people #politics #state