#rue

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#brain #getting #horror #i #i think

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christian #continually #crosses #death #exercise

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. ↗

— John Astin

#background #basically #blood #contradicts #dad

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#award #award shows #be true #cliche #deserving

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ↗

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

#essence #originality #scholar #scholarship #soul

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#any #cannot #certain #change #criticism

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#affect #composition #comprises #conscious #content

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#education #himself #man #purpose #sunset

It's mighty strange for a U-Haul the size of the one Nina rented to show up at the residence when no one has died and a family isn't hauling out furniture. The patients parked in the wheelchairs in the shade think they might have missed some news: "George was watching the TV one minute, then was gone the next." That's the story they like to hear. ↗

— Holley Rubinsky

#humor #family