#on

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse. ↗

— Newton N. Minow

#better #good #nothing #television #worse

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#danger #explosion #greatest #greatest danger #provoke

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#done #leave #talk #will #you

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#admittedly #claim #great #grounds #highest

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#being #determining #earth #heavenly #him

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#imagination

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#toronto #toronto-literature #imagination

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#actually #brilliant #crap #done #everyone

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#cannot #established #lasting #order

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. ↗