#su

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#herd-mentality #peer-pressure #reputation #science

I've got no tolerance for a man who hurts women. Every man on this planet owes his life to a woman. I hope they catch the bastard and hang him by his nuts. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#wisdom #life

Life is only a flicker of melted ice. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#flicker #ice #life #literature #literature-quotes

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #festive #light #literature #literature-quotes

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you. ↗

— Michael J. Cohen

#infinite #life #nature #sustained #wisdom

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels. ↗

— Ahmed H. Zewail

#life

Advice is a form of Nostalgia ↗

— Mary Schmich

#nostalgia #sunscreen #life

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#drinking #drunkenness #retort #today

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#pointless #suicide #logic