#mit

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#fear #grief #grieve #happen #happened

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#exhausts #his #imitates #men #novels

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#europe #firm #nato #part

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #every #exists #fight #international

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #contributes #depends #disarmament #limitation

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. ↗

— Robert Quine

#many #playing #primitive #punk #standards

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#back #behavior #contradiction #crazy #every

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ↗

— Quintilian

#child #first #hears #her #imitate

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#experience #fortunately #had #i #limited