#oft

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#country #friends #himself #i #man

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. ↗

— Theo de Raadt

#hate #linux #microsoft #people

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#doing #every #found #freedom #grow

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ever #going #higher #ideals #live

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#moment #often #present #present moment #trouble

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#often #stone

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#common #could #different #different types #environment

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#acting #actually #also #completely #different