#thing

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#belong #colors #divine #done #hundred

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#difficult #effort #find #instincts #many

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#almost #anything #been #compromising #disgusting

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ↗

— Max Lerner

#bed #before #best #between #distinguish

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. ↗

— Max Lerner

#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #disappointing #disapproval #found #freedom

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#else #identity #immigration #in the past #mexican

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#bruce #dead #different #grateful #grateful dead

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#creative #especially #i #i think #important

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#apart #bad #else #enough #look