#not

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. ↗

— James Mill

#bad #cannot #good #how #known

It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years. ↗

— Bess Truman

#four #going #like #looks #put

I'm gonna take a patato chip! AND eat it! ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#food

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change. ↗

— Ronnie Milsap

#change #great #home #like #make

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent. ↗

— Joan Plowright

#nothing #sexy #talent

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ↗

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#city #depend #god #holding #holding on