#sent

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#god #name #named #part #particular

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#keep #made #medicare #must #promises

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. ↗

— Frank Stella

#chaos #fully #human #human personality #into

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#consistent #could #essential #go #hours

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#every #other #our #over #own

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#bits #essentially #impossible #left #lot

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#controlling #equality #essential #her #i