#pre

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#avoid #china #confrontation #country #current

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#custody #dad #determines #hands-on #i

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#breaking #cable #interesting #mad #mad men

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. ↗

— Malcolm McDowell

#brain #entertaining #entertaining people #get #heart

All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#fingerprint #god #harmony #nature #precision

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#distorted #industries #marketplace #our #pressures

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. ↗

— Hermann Minkowski

#doomed #fade #henceforth #independent #into

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#self-deprecation #humor

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It’s like this, Meg. We didn’t like that Asia Crane, so we ate her. When dealing with humans, honesty isn’t always the best policy, Vlad thought ↗

— Anne Bishop

#humor #predator #prey #vampires #humor