#ten

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#carries #coming #confidence #contact #conviction

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it. ↗

— Claude Simon

#begin #big #chore #complete #continue

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs. ↗

— Paul Simon

#artie #beautifully #boxer #bridge #good

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way. ↗

— Paul Simon

#bigger #did #differ #difference #each

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#children #cold #desert #desolate #down

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems. ↗

— Mike Simpson

#find #fresh #often #pair #problems

I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what. ↗

— Molly Sims

#consistent #days #exercise #i #matter

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#died #disease #diseases #given #gotten

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#been #broken #chaotic #crime #domestic