#om

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#family #give #someone #you

People learn to lead because they care about something. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#because #care #lead #learn #people

It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#money #politics #science #technocracy #age

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? ↗

— Basil Bunting

#consent #madness #make #make up #moment

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. ↗

— Eric Burdon

#conventional #conventional way #decided #exit #i

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#age #cheese #matter #something #unless

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#depressing #may #most #our #our time

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#eden #grow #imagination #like #love

E eu pergunto aos economistas políticos, aos moralistas, se já calcularam o número de indivíduos que é forçoso condenar à miséria, ao trabalho desproporcionado, à desmoralização, à infâmia, à ignorância crapulosa, à desgraça invencível, à penúria absoluta, para produzir um rico? ↗

— Almeida Garrett

#money #politics #money

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#boiled #contraception #down #easier #easy