#liz

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#be true #begin #even #great #great number

Advertising is legalized lying. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#advertising #legalized #lying

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#degree #foundation #government #inhabitants #law

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#disappeared #emergency #existing #far #gradually

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. ↗

— William Weld

#come #everything #helms #i #jesse

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do. ↗

— Billy West

#falls #going #got #head #into

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ↗

— Rebecca West

#adventures #desire #fertilize #nobility #ought

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ↗

— Rebecca West

#believe #each #even #everyone #less

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it. ↗

— David Wenham

#direct #force #i #long-term #need