#not

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#delight #delivered #devouring #ourselves #we cannot

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#aspects #bankers #cannot #concerned #culture

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#biggest #biggest problem #fighting #knew #nothing

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. ↗

— Christo

#believe #could #definitely #dinosaurs #even

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ↗

— John Erskine

#language #mean #music #only #sarcastic

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ↗

— John Erskine

#beautiful woman #beauty #between #charm #charming

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#executive #extend #nothing #out #past

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#cannot #details #does #i #idle

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. ↗

— Robert Bork

#apparent #became #cannot #child #enlightenment

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. ↗

— Evan Esar

#does #done #hasn #housework #nobody