#rve

I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#did #i #respect #things

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#insincere #perverse #than #thought

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#i #nerve #never #out #run

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defense #deserve #secretary #soldiers #than

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#among #familiar #feel #grow #learn

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ↗

— Martin Luther

#clay #consulted #continue #generation #god

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual life

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#avoid #become #camera #i #i am

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common people #democracy #deserve #get #good