#take

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ↗

— John Woolman

#case #cast #civil #civil society #disorder

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architect #as far as #build #buildings #bury

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#crooked #did #early #gangster #get

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#big #cool #head #keep #lead

It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#complex #disabled #easier #elevator #get

When in doubt, take more time. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#doubt #more #take #when in doubt

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war. ↗

— Abu Abbas

#feel #i #i do #makes #mistakes

Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what's going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the Cocoro of Rococo. No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight is boring, or not beautiful, it doesn't matter. And even if something is made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people's opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of "I like this, I don't like that" is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy. Only in Rococo--elegant yet in bad taste, extravagant yet defiant and lawless--can I discover the meaning of life. ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#japanese-fashion #kamikaze #lolita #novala #rococo

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#every #every day #further #how #hurts

Don't take 'no' for an answer. ↗

— Abdallah II

#take