#owning

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state. ↗

— Michael Dukakis

#believe #disarm #everything #going #guns

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#enjoy #man #millions #money #nothing

There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#delight #owning

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#drowning #foresight #help #i #incredibly

We don't have to know everything. If you believe in fate and some kind of meaning and sense in this fucked-up world, then believe with abandon, love. Enjoy it. ↗

— Jessica Park

#left-drowning #life #love

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#tragedies #villains #without

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#absolutely #also #brothers #browning #care

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning. ↗

— Hanns Johst

#culture #hear #i #release #word

Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#death

Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd kept that job? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#robert-browning #romantic-poetry #saul-bellow #time-magazine #whittaker-chambers