#lit

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#gadgets #guess #i #many #reality

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beyond #earth #flower #hour #little

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

#best #change #deal #does #explore

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#big problems #easier #little #problems #solving

I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important. ↗

— Jason Williams

#accountant #agent #another #bills #getting

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#tenderness #vulnerability #equality

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#i #like #little #lot #maybe

There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of ‘Last Things Too’. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the ‘last’ things. Check your own memory banks and see if this principle holds for the following. You will probably recall: � -The last new person you met � -The last time you saw the person you love the most � -The last social event you attended ↗

— Tony Buzan

#equality

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest