#sting

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cigar #costly #emotional #habit #hurry

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#invite #lasting #lasting peace #measures #oppose

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting. ↗

— Dean Cain

#around #director #dragged #getting #grew

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. ↗

— George Carlin

#disease #got #i #i think #interesting

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #confines #darkness #empires #everlasting

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. ↗

— David Chalmers

#become #closely #consciousness #going #i

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#arises #being #interested #interesting #interesting things

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#disgusting #encounter #more #morning #nothing