#mist

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right. ↗

— Robert Mallet

#end #fear #how #many #order

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#being #created #generation #i #opportunity

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#assuming #awful #being #decent #even

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one. ↗

— Judith Martin

#mistakenly #new #new technology #old #old one

The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love. ↗

— Ildefonso Falcones

#love #mistakes #past #forgiveness

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#else #enough #get #having #i

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#deepest #impulses #intellectually #me #necessary

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#expert #happen #know #predicted #things

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#average #average man #conformist #cow #disasters