#ted

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#how #i #interested #make #me

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. ↗

— Walt Disney

#characters #common #created #depth #dimension

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#every #every man #man #right #successful

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attributed #british #dinner #great #great success

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#claims #coming #future #hour #indifferent

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#given #god #had #man #play

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#central-intelligence-agency #cuba #foreign-policy #politics #united-states

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#cholesterol #directly #eat #energy #feel

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

#after #afterwards #along #badly #could

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? ↗

— Otto Dix

#beside #bullet #dead #directly #experience