#resent

That fatal drollery called a representative government. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fatal #government #representative

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#anybody #each #feel #happy #hasn

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#future #happy #knows #past #person

When you are present, the world is truly alive. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#present #truly #world #you

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last. ↗

— Adolph Green

#ingredient #last #main #main ingredient #represent

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#doubt #early #foreign #found #his

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#forms #ideal #negation #painting #realism

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. ↗

— Hart Crane

#before #bridge #contented #ever #fancy