#mos

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #destiny #feels #obey #passive

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#aspect #come #contact #even #exaggerate

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#children #doll #girl #her #more

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#american #attitude #daughters #doctors #feel

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#many #most #something #them #thinking

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. ↗

— William M. Daley

#daley #mayor #most #people #rich

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#entertainer #least #most #poet

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#enthusiastic #intended #league #most #nations