#tell

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#attention #call #cannons #does #fire

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#certainly #death #intellectuals #movement #political

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#break #emotional #emotionally #fans #find

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#lie #make #person #sin #tell

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#clark #cost #deal #did #eden

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#beat #cbs #factor #last #last night

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cross #i #i can #i think #me

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#attempt #characterization #down #else #i