#lit

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

One thing that golf teaches you is humility. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#humility #one thing #teaches #thing #you

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#being #did #doing #even #experience

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#creative works #explored #interesting #itself #politics

This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#brought #excitement #northern #party #political

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#beings #cannot #choice #endowed #god

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#earning #every #everyone #extra #get

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#art #culture #history #how #iconography

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. ↗

— David Trimble

#beam #bend #close #close attention #driving

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing