#straight

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. ↗

— Hans Blix

#bugs #cannot #carry #country #democratic

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#girl #hard #her #lead #make

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#deadly #i #i believe #i believe that #long

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing. ↗

— Kate Smith

#hair #i #i can #know #sing

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#bed #busy #else #enjoy #everybody

We can also profit by reading more modern authors who seem at first sight to be merely perversely questioning what every sensible person knows to be true. Such writers do us a great service, of forcing us to question our old beliefs, so that we may freely and intelligently choose what is sound in them and reject the rest, and thus have our minds prepared for seeing new and unfamiliar truths. Most people do not need protection from being shocked. They need to be shocked a great deal more than they are. ↗

— R.H. Thouless and C.R. Thouless

#straight-crooked-thinking #intelligence

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#dark #i #i came #journey #life

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#i #i love #like #love #old-fashioned

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #god #makes #straight #thought

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. ↗