#men

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#creation #enough #literature #man #moment

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. ↗

— Todd Akin

#essential #even #form #government #idea

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care. ↗

— Todd Akin

#compassion #efficiency #federal #federal government #government

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. ↗

— Todd Akin

#anybody #bird #bunch #i #involved

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#did #latter #never #oblique #prefer

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#got #i #just #mexicans #out

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art school #artists #development #had #i

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #dark #dysfunctional #everybody #favorite

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #i write #problem #readers #sentimentality

Sentiment is wherever you go. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#sentiment #wherever #you