#so

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#always #ecstatic #experience #ready #should

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ↗

— Gordon R. Dickson

#frame #instead #like #much #people

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. ↗

— Tony Blair

#because #bought #dad #especially #family

Lists have always implied social order. ↗

— David Viscott

#implied #lists #order #social #social order

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#celebrities #compelling #everyday #everyday life #harking

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. ↗

— Tony Blair

#danger #disorder #like #new #new world

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #killed #many #never #philosopher

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#always #choices #could #cowboy #films

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#also #endlessly #forgets #his #man

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men