#source

In the desert, the only god is a well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#desert #desolation #faith #fountain #god

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#everything #heaven #human #itself #joy

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#advanced #american #american indians #creating #different

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#better #dead #discover #had #know

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ambition #controlled #corruption #democratic #democratic system

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#pipes #plumber #source #their #traces

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition. ↗

— Fred Upton

#common #common sense #competition #concern #diversity

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#beings #conserve #cooperate #diminishing #fight

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#around #back #being #flushed #i