#thing

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#ask #going #life-changing #questions #something

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#i #i do #obvious #something #unknown

I don't know nothing about nothing. ↗

— Danny Bautista

#i #know #nothing

I need to work on everything. ↗

— Danny Bautista

#i #need #work

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#freedom #nothing #public #reason #sumptuous

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #complicated #dare #i