#ture

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day? ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#funny #humour #lotr #pippin #poetry

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#anything #assurance #earth #fullness #god

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#life #must #need #remains #some

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#i #industry #just #life #like

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. ↗

— Richard Russo

#anybody #aspect #darker #easier #i

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

#baseball #baseball game #because #beloved #booed