#si

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#know #neurosis #only #the only thing #thing

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane #persuasion #sea #sir-walter

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#go #leave #off #presidents #telling

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#going #great #idea #instead #just

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#elements #finished #many #much #music

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#burns #democracy #flag #freedom #jerk

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#debate #decision #family #i #insert

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. ↗

— Henry Adams

#men #passion #regarding #senile #their