#rut

In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes ↗

— Morgan Spurlock

#life #truth #warning-labels #food

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about? ↗

— Emma Thompson

#again #be happy #child #happy #never

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#tells #truth

When in doubt, use brute force. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#brute force #doubt #force #use #when in doubt

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#answer #ask #because #country #direct

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ↗

— James Thurber

#enough #even #face #gone #long

The words of truth are always paradoxical. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#paradoxical #truth #words

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#evolution #food #humor #jodi-picoult #peace

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. ↗

— Henry Knox

#darkness #far #light #may #ostensible