#mat

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#change #climate #common #common sense #fool

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

She looked... She looked young, and- and--" I glanced down at Rossana gazing up at me, lips parted, eyes shining, her hair loose around her shoulders, and the next words I spoke were intended with no artifice at all. "She is almost as beautiful as you." There was laughter, and I looked up, confused. "If you wish to pay court to my daughter, Matteo, you must first speak to me," Captain dell'Orte said in mock severity. Rossana's face colored pink. "Elizabetta is also very beautiful," I said quickly, thinking to cover any embarassment, but also because it was true. The adults roared with laughter. "Now Matteo seeks to woo both girls with one compliment. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#humor #leonardo-da-vinci #matteo #ten-year-old-boy #beauty

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#team #teammate #win #world #you

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right. ↗

— John Anderson

#changes #climate #create #definitive #get

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#end #film #get #how #least

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#audience #contempt #performer #sin #ultimate

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so. ↗

— Athanasius

#anyone #approximation #city #clear #country

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#continent #country #descent #estimated #europe