#ness

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#chaos #come #council #desperate #ever

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility. ↗

— John Rowland

#am #around #ask #attention #connecticut

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. ↗

— William Safire

#fighting #known #light #political #previously

There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#am #ass #become #comes #comfortable

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. ↗

— George Sand

#among #common #each #ideal #life

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#bands #business #cameras #difficult #expression

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#because #happiness #how #interesting #known

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. ↗

— Don Rickles

#i #insurance #kid #laughed #life

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#believe #big #businesses #creative #deepest