#ows

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ↗

— Lucretius

#apply #blows #dungeon #executioner #goad

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true. ↗

— Derek Luke

#city #come #dreams #got #holding

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#democracy #destinies #determination #develops #direction

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#giving #giving up #i #kids #know

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appearance #attracted #beneath #concerned #consecutive

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had. ↗

— James MacArthur

#enough #fortunate #had #i #kind

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you. ↗

— James MacArthur

#drums #grows #hard #hawaii #just

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. ↗

— George MacDonald

#being #does #gets #know #knows

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#getting #getting older #good #him #knows

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#america #candidate #country #declare #deserves