#too

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. ↗

— Simone Weil

#endured #hatred #lying #pain #present

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. ↗

— Simone Weil

#been #cause #down #established #just

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. ↗

— Len Wein

#art #became #class #college #design

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#better #better man #go #going #hard

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#advantage #bad #buy #everything #just

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#eat #got #likes #may #me

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. ↗

— Peter Weir

#any #arrived #banal #become #case

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. ↗

— Jack Welch

#developing #gardener #had #i #job