#some

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. ↗

— George Mikes

#british #england #great #great britain #isles

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#because #evil #frightening #i #i think

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#because #convinced #definite #direct #else

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#collect #did #going #happen #ideas

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#events #experience #future #however #including

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american people #argument #being #comfortable

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me. ↗

— Tim Meadows

#certain point #close #divorce #i #life

If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humor

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. ↗

— Herman Melville

#depends #handsome #hideous #i #i am

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#autograph #because #been #down #give