#mix

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. ↗

— John Masefield

#common sense #few #mixture #poetry #sense

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#come #compassion #deep #feeling #here

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#get #mixed #never #never forget #remember

If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#confident #easy #easy way #feel #little

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#democratic #economy #every #human #human rights

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy. ↗

— Delia Smith

#although #because #certainly #chop #does

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. ↗

— Huston Smith

#bag #belief #between #capacity #credulity

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blessing #brought #dead #mixed #very

He made me peppermint tea and I told him how he had ruined every song on the tape for me, since now they all made me cry. He corrected me, telling me that he had actually vitalized them for me by infusing them with meaning. Maybe he was right. ↗

— Daniella Meeker (Mix-Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture)

#mix #music #art

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#daughter #determination #mixed-feelings #mother #strong-willed-child