#mon

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#columns #could #demonstration #envied #gossip

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#admitted #bill #bill clinton #clinton #flowers

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#flag #hoped #liberty #men #moneyed

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. ↗

— John Keats

#birth #continually #creatures #electric #finding

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. ↗

— John Keats

#fail #greatest #i #sooner #than

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. ↗

— John Keats

#i #i am #imagination #monastery #monk

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. ↗

— John Keegan

#childhood #commonly #education #had #help

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#change #common #cultures #different #different cultures

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. ↗

— Helen Keller

#appears #compare #comparing #fellow #fellow men

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#commoner #everyone #fool #friend #himself