#tense

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#academic #cannot #decide #differences #economics

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#basketball court #breathes #court #crazy #eats

Seth's quote from his book: "And if I only could I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places" -"Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush ↗

— Richelle Mead

#georgina-kincaid #god #love #relationship #seth-mortensen

Bless you, daugher of man," Carter said, his eyes luminous and almost silver now. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes and caught my breath. His lips were both burning hot and icy cold. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#carter #georgina-mortensen #love #love

Pretense cannot sustain blind power. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#education #environment #get #hope #intense

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#am #any #conservatism #dislike #entertain

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#allegations #cabinet #correct #even #i

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#am #beat #been #direction #drum

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#captain #clarke #cold #evening #had