#now

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen. ↗

— James Lipton

#back #began #define #example #for example

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. ↗

— James Lipton

#blow #craft #doors #i #know

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't. ↗

— John Lithgow

#artist #believe #con #i #know

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered. ↗

— John Lithgow

#being #broadway #challenge #danger #greater

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#followed #ireland #knows #parts #sleep

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war. ↗

— Titus Livius

#frequently #more #nowhere #our #than

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #citizens #enough #little #lucky

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know. ↗

— Eric Liu

#generation #had #heard #i #knew

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed