#see

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

#career politicians #checks #credible #definition #different

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. ↗

— William Empson

#off #put #refined #seems #someone

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ↗

— Michael Ende

#beings #beliefs #better #comes #controlling

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ↗

— Michael Ende

#because #calendars #clocks #eternity #exist

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belong #cultivate #cultivating #doing #doing good

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#cut #develop #forever #fun #fun stuff

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#always #catholic #caused #completely #date

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.' ↗

— Terence Fisher

#eventually #first #go #god #gradual

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out. ↗

— Carlton Fisk

#carried #fair #feet #foul #go