#rely

The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fame #fashion #merely #present

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#evil #good #interesting #less #much

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#carnal #directed #even #i #imagined

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#good #make #never #peace #rarely

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#head #merely #pants #standing #torn

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#children #driving #how #learn #life

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. ↗

— Li Ka Shing

#approaching #broader #cannot #capabilities #constructive

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #barely #carry #could #even

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitudes #creative #does #element #eliminated