#rut

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#costs #i #i wish #lives #really

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

Truth is on the side of the oppressed. ↗

— Malcolm X

#side #truth #truth is

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#having #only #right #say #them

I am a lie who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#am #i #i am #lie #speaks

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#emotionally #most #need #prepared #small

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. ↗

— Robert Collier

#confidence #enforcing #faith #knowing #truth

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion