#ows

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#death #easy #elbows #even #hands

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#being #easily #genius #himself #how

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#always #distrust #fellows #god #i

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bite #blood #doing #horrified #hurts

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#arab #arab world #blows #cement #explosive

Let each man exercise the art he knows. ↗

— Aristophanes

#art #each #exercise #knows #man

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#also #bestows #completeness #death #ends

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ↗

— Aristotle

#misfortune #really #shows #those #who

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#business #different #fool #forces #hand