#rational

I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#life-lessons #music #writing #beauty

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

#common #consequence #directions #excessive #fear

Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – Did you ever try buying them without money. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#humorous #funny

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#adopt #communities #existence #explain #explanation

I was born into Bolivar's labyrinth, so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #life-lessons #dreams

Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#writer #writing #writing-life #dreams

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own. ↗

— John Marsden

#funny

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#civil government #common #government #ground #institution

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. ↗

— John McCarthy

#although #boarding #courses #different #forbid

Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self. ↗

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#knowledge #life #natural-beauty #power #wisdom