#ture

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

#agriculture #america #arts #encouraged #had

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#every #future #guard #leads #men

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#bad #buy #decision #done #few

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #directions #future #house #new

I did not know what my future was going to hold. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#future #going #hold #i #know

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#chavez #deteriorating #fabric #government #infrastructure

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies. ↗

— Mario Lopez

#balance #comedy #continue #doing #doing good

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#bitterness #delight #flowers #fountain #heart

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

#being #changed #creatures #dependent #diminish