#nit

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#close #close proximity #deal #definitely #everybody

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#death #devastating #disgraceful #dying #helpless

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#before #cast #hasn #massive #obviously

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hustled #indian #infinite #life #like

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#being #candidates #clear #consistent #continuing

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#cannot #change #come #committed #crimes

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#both #dignity #enemy #friendship #hand

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit. ↗

— Mary Astell

#discern #enough #fit #form #how

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ↗

— Julian Assange

#between #china #enormous #freedom #freedom of speech

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#insanity #stillness #velocity #viscosity #business