#situations

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#comment #encounters #family #friends #group

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#away #embrace #emotions #job #life

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#causing #charm #disgust #ear #even

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ↗

— Doug Larson

#getting #into #keeps #need #quality

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#essentially #i #language #make #me

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.' ↗

— Menander

#good #know #know thyself #many #others

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#different #i #i always #match #musical

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#belong #confident #curious #feel #i