#table

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#drugs #ecstasy #empathy

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#comfortable #go #go to hell #hell #more

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#always #art #audience #feel #general

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#comfortable #doing #feeling #nothing #very

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college. ↗

— Adam Ant

#college #i #ill #just #left

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#better #comfortable #endurance #feel #i

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#blamed #crash #cups #edge #ground

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#been #case #church #community #death

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#australian #confidence #government #i #levels