#ness

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. ↗

— Alcuin

#close #crowd #god #keep #listened

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school. ↗

— Alan Alda

#business school #called #frowned #major #now

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#back #between #could #crawl #curl

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#good #happiness #man #own #secured

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. ↗

— Ausonius

#base #commit #deed #respect #though

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ↗

— Jane Austen

#business #does #ever #friendship #hardly

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. ↗

— Ellyn Bache

#illness #laughter #life #art

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#business #came #compared #could #different

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. ↗

— Meghna Pant

#despair #inspirational #loneliness #old-age #age

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#circumstances #criticisms #distinguish #few #may