#lit

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#his #solitary #vice #worship #worst

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#dirt #finds #heap #his #keep

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see. ↗

— Matthew Continetti

#beltway #borrows #budget #eye #far

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#am #balance #between #challenge #created

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you. ↗

— Dane Cook

#day #fact #fun #just #little

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#dissatisfaction #love #solitude #under #weight

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#flaws #granted #insecurities #into #know

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#hermit #hospitality #intercourse #mind #place

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow