#these

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them. ↗

— Daley Thompson

#days #decathlon #doing #most #people

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. ↗

— Sean Parker

#any #conform #every #expect #group

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#decades #liberties #once #ours #state

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

#around #bonds #break #came #conform

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#against #along #back #creeping #far

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#begins #big #bloated #doors #feel

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#facts #far #interest #problems #relevant

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#considerations #empirically #even #everyday #everyday life

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#bring #families #generation #great #great way

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#frightens #infinite #me #silence #spaces