#sum

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#assume #based #convictions #incorrect #know

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. ↗

— Anne Seward

#flatter #i #indeed #myself #possibility

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

#diseases #flattering #most #poetry

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#consuming #created #feeling #gotta #i

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!' ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#assumes #cigarette #cocktail #dressed #everyone

I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel. ↗

— John Stamos

#album #beach #beach boys #brain #day

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#darkness #derived #god #hypothesis #immediate

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#birthday #birthday party #dinner #dyke #him

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#become #emotional #i #loved #olympics