#orr

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. ↗

— John Updike

#ecstasy #existence #experience #feel #feels

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#birthday party #emotionally #ever #exhausting #horrible

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#easy #easy way #everybody #participating #really

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consequences #could #going #horrendous #later

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. ↗

— John Updike

#bloom #dare #decay #disreputable #early

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#area #areas #basically #favor #focused

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#alcohol #because #drinking #fake #grape

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#afterwards #explain #foretell #going #happen

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#become #our #planning #thinking #worrying

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#because #civilization #democracy #him #imprison