#orr

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#corruption #even #focus #get #institutions

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy. ↗

— Edward Heath

#apartheid #attitude #moral #policy

I went for the door and opened it, not wanting to see how much this corpse was willing to destroy to get into my bedroom. His body probably would’ve crumbled to pieces before he got in, and I had no clue how to get dead guy out of the carpet. ↗

— Kelly Hashway

#necromancers #paranormal-ya #zombies #death

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. ↗

— Richard Heber

#borrowers #copies #gentleman #show #three

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#bit #depressed #eaten #either #fat

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#correspond #external #means #philosophy #reality

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#am #feebleness #feeling #horrified #i

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#american #conceal #cunning #diabolical #every

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back. ↗

— John Higgins

#back #booed #come #i #i am

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

#cool #each #happened #hurt #i