#rue

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#cruel #english #especially #five #i

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, 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 #hand

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#accidents #claims #cruel #essence #grow

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#certainly #deal #deception #enough #full

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do. ↗

— Toni Collette

#artist #been #explore #far #get

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#health #known #like #lost #seldom

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#crew #day #determined #dismayed #leagues

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#his #leave #me #must #poet

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. ↗

— Confucius

#friend #never #silence #true #true friend

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#dreams #know #surreal #true