#sm

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#european union #heart #protectionism #union #want

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in. ↗

— David Brudnoy

#conservatism #i #interested

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#cost #does #giving #hardest #live

I sell escapism. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#i #sell

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#inspiration #meaning #peony #small-things #beauty

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#corresponding #efficacious #i #i do #know

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#energies #freedom #freedom from #german #german people

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#breaks #capitalism #capitalists #ever #faster

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#funny #interesting #interesting people #most #people

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#language #less #organism #our #part