#ran

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#willful-ignorance #food

He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#romance #men

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this? ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#love

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#knowledge #truth #men

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. ↗

— John Irving

#transgender #men

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#men

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference. ↗

— John Flanagan

#halt #horace #ranger-s-apprentice #men

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#fear #ignorance #pg- #men

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#trading #men

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#knowledge #remaining-silent #wisdom #men