#om

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#break #crappy #going #i #i love

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#funny-as-hell #funny-but-sad #funny-but-true #funny-humor #hilarious

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#alone #aura #childbirth #every #isolation

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#doctor #fellow #forbidden #me #metaphysics

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#basic #care #domestic #facing #health

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#country #economy #fiscal #fiscal responsibility #i

We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities. ↗

— George Pataki

#computerized #devoted #network #reliable