#misc

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#authors #behind #books #course #enjoyed

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#promiscuity #sentiment #sentimentality #those #who

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! ↗

— Bob Marley

#big #bury #complicate #flee #hate

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#attention #good #got #i #into

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #filling #minds #misconceptions #our

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#course #disaster #history #main #main source

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#become #illusion #misconception #nuclear #nuclear age

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#awe #deprived #discourage #ensue #horrid

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#bipolar #bit #certainly #character #depression

Stupidity is a talent for misconception. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#stupidity #talent