#red

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#concept #culture #his #immediate #popular

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ↗

— James Madison

#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#did #disney #ever #fired #i

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#delivered #extremely #four #go #governments

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#our #portion #predominate #will

Credit... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. ↗

— James Blish

#credit #enduring #man #only

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#alike #beings #contemporary #human #human beings

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. ↗