#or

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#mirage #pronounced #should #which #word

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#life

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? ↗

— Maya Angelou

#life #mistakes #right #life

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. ↗

— Howard H. Baker, Jr.

#clearly #got #guard #more #speaking

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the textbooks is a technical subject that many people find hard to follow. How reassuring, then, to be told that it is all irrelevant -- that all you really need to know are a few simple ideas! Quite a few supply-siders have created for themselves a wonderful alternative intellectual history in which John Maynard Keynes was a fraud, Paul Samuelson and even Milton Friedman are fools, and the true line of deep economic thought runs from Adam Smith through obscure turn-of-the-century Austrians straight to them. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#history #life

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world. Of course, it`s the start of a brilliant world. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#actors #children #life #love #married

I did everything wrong," he said. "I misunderstood everything. Moon Child gave me so much, and all I did with it was harm, harm to myself and harm to Fantastica." Dame Eyola gave him a long look. No," she said. "I don't believe so. You went the way of wishes, and that is never straight. You went the long way around, but that was your way. And do you know why? Because you are one of those who can't go back until they have found the fountain from which springs the Water of Life. And that's the most secret place in Fantastica. There's no simple way of getting there." After a short silence she added: "But every way that leads there is the right one. ↗

— Michael Ende

#life

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#euthanasia #life #life

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance ↗

— Robert Walser

#life #nothingness #robert-walser #silence #tired

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#growing-up #growth #life #moving-forward #moving-on