#ties

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. ↗

— Angus Wilson

#heroism #kind #limited #most #opportunities

I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to. ↗

— Jennifer Wyatt

#better job #doing #filled #i #i think

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charles-dickens #age

When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#american companies #between #border #both #both sides

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #be-yourself #creative-people #creative-process

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#grow #historical #investments #large #long-term

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ↗

— Voltaire

#dangerous #established #matters #right #which

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#dissatisfaction #modern-age #possibilities #wealth #age

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. ↗

— George Washington

#history #patriotism #political-parties #political-philosophy #politics

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going." Catho Darlington in the book Catho Darlington--Lessons Learned in the Space Age ↗

— Sara Marie Hogg

#cool #elementary-school #hideouts #hula-hoops #middle-america