#om

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

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#celebrate #come #going #good #part

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. ↗

— Susan George

#21st century #century #competitive #crude #darwinian

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy. ↗

— Hannibal Buress

#chris rock #compare #eddie #eddie murphy #even

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#doubt #fabric #legislative #no doubt #opening

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#feature #folks #fought #from time to time #justice

For me the genre of romance is about the characters. It’s about following a journey between two people and watching them grow and develop and have their lives change for the better because of their presence in each other’s world. ↗

— Samantha Young

#romance #change