#ow

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#belong #enforcing #good #good manners #justified

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#enjoy #far #go #how #how far

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#i #know #mad #me #sometimes

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#accomplished #breaking #control #cry #democratic

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#heart #melody #never #paper #put

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#coming #complain #did #earn #gift

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#acts #basic #complicated #courage #deal

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#duck #held #his #man #merciful

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy. ↗

— Ed Case

#ask #eliminating #homosexuals #i #military

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#between #chasm #deep #fence #gulf