#pa

The lucky person passes for a genius. ↗

— Euripides

#lucky #lucky person #passes #person

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#believe #brotherhood #certain #faith #human

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#creeds #emotional #forms #grouping #intellectual

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. ↗

— Howard Finster

#art #come #criticism #enough #feeling

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing. ↗

— Eddie Floyd

#know #oh #oh yeah #part #thing

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#downturn #i #managed #packard #technology

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past. ↗

— Heinz Fischer

#critically #even #examined #learned #lessons

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate. ↗

— Peter G. Fitzgerald

#candidate #could #democratic #democratic state #devotion