#thing

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#behold #brave #brave man #conflict #direct

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#complexity #country #opposed #something #understanding

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#because #deeply #naturally #supposed #these

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#back #becomes #character #come #flight

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#back #different #down #i #immediate

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#done #fools #just #majority #opposite

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#anything #comes #delight #enjoy #enjoyed

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy? ↗

— Paul Schrader

#happy #i #i do #make #me

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#forces #material #nothing #observe #shapes

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#been #chair #cold #compromise #do the right thing