#los

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#better #conditions #far #i #i think

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see. ↗

— Josef Albers

#big #doing #how #i #instead

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#closed #delight #expectation #good #good book

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#detail #every #full #given #i

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#dark #i #i came #journey #life

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close. ↗

— Gary Allan

#close #date #either #ever #first

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. ↗

— Roland Allen

#among #church #clergy #close #difficulties

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #finding #layman #modeling #perspective

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. ↗

— Tim Allen

#hateful #levels #loving #mean #metaphysical