#out

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life? ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#burned #choice #choices #did #figure

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#been #born #called #capacity #christmas

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ↗

— Socrates

#around #comes #each #how #life

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#american #based #been #being #connection

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#far #found #funny #haven #i

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems. ↗

— Hans Frank

#adolf #associates #belonged #circle #closest

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#aloofness #environment #external #indifference #something

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. ↗

— Billy Graham

#going #i #last #out #page

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#complex #demands #figure #film #films