#spot

In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors. ↗

— John Glover

#factors #fire #fires #head #hoping

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#before #finally #girl #go #how

We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#life

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#creative #creative mind #mind #questions #spot

I'm going to enjoy this.” “What?” I asked. “Hell? ↗

— J.X. Burros

#profanity #scarlet-spotlight #vampire #death

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#trainspotting #change

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#dictates #dreams #fashion #here

She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#eyes #scarlet-spotlight #communication

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#despotism #liberty #men #prefer #sea

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#party-dissension #party-politics #age