#r

His body was perfect. His parents were loaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl’s dream come true. ↗

— Elizabeth Nicole

#jocks #teens #dreams

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. ↗

— Kate Adie

#armed #contrary #danger #escort #even

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ↗

— Felix Adler

#be real #ceaseless #efforts #engaged #ethical

A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

The wisest of the wise may err. ↗

— Aeschylus

#may #wise #wisest

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#couple #couple times #dizzy #does #drive

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy. ↗

— Ed Asner

#democracy #does #i #immeasurably #iraq

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#any #asked #because #believes #born