#rio

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#been #before #came #cases #dark

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bring #circumstances #commerce #contingent #flourishes

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way. ↗

— Paula Cole

#another #challenge #feel #i #i feel

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗

— Confucius

#exceeds #his #man #modest #speech

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. ↗

— Confucius

#everyone #faults #like #looks #moon