#pa

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#best #cease #character #facts #part

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic. ↗

— Roman Payne

#critics #literary-criticism #payne #roman #love

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work. ↗

— Mike Honda

#amazing #equal #equal pay #fewer #into

People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#afraid #because #exactly #loud #out

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#basis #beautiful #color #converse #internet

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#climbed #dictator #each #every #except

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#genocidal #get #goes #going #great

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#i #paint #side #sunlight #wanted

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#become #before #deal #fully #great

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" ↗

— Grace Hopper

#i #immigration #looked #me #officer