#temporary

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#growth #security #surrender #temporary

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#circumstances #concentration #democracy #executive #executive power

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #good #parties #temporary #youthfulness

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. ↗

— Donald Judd

#contemporary #hopper #i #i think #less

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#contemporary #hundred #reader #readers #should

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#between #consciousness #contemporary #contemporary world #crying

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#classical #classical music #contemporary #i #i am

Okay, so English settlers brought rabbits with them to Australia to breed for food and stuff, right? But they escaped and basically started destroying the country, eating the vegetation, that kind of thing. So by the early 1900s, the government was trying to figure out a way to get rid of all the rabbits. Want to hear what their genius plan was? The rabbit-proof fence. Worked out great for the rabbits. Once they learned how to play badminton and got the hang of tennis on grass, they couldn’t remember how they ever lived without it. Supposedly there was something like six hundred million rabbits by 1950. But you’re missing the point. The point is that even though it was pretty obvious from the beginning it wasn’t working, they kept right on building it—two thousand miles of it. ↗

— Elle Lothlorien

#food

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York. ↗

— Stephanie Witter

#young-adult #art

Impressive," Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. "You should join the theater." "Fuck you." "I owed you that." "Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that." Really is a dirty fighter. Goddamn. ↗

— Finn Marlowe

#funny #intense #m-m-romance #supernatural #funny