#rve

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#folly #genius #good #good sense #only

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#praise #satire #undeserved

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#make #more #observations #observer #ourselves

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology. ↗

— John Pople

#close #developments #i #molecular #observer

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#fourteen #having #i #i think #important

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record. ↗

— Rob Portman

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #deficits #die

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gentleman #i #know #like #listed

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#people #think #vote #wrong #you

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. ↗

— Michael Todd

#else #felt #going #i #intervening