#sm

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #between #both #determined #divided

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#statesmanship #equality

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. ↗

— Vance Havner

#called #disease #dollars #hearing #hundreds

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#bar #been #before #certain #feel

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level. ↗

— John Hawkes

#even #i #infamy #level #makes

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#end #grounds #laws #may #nature

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#as far as #far #go #gone #kind

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#hardest #hearts #i #simple #softening

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#because #big #bobby #body #clarinet