#ture

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#happiness #happy #made #man #more

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#eats #general #improvement #mankind #much

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#bare #beauty #charm #clearly #curves

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#elements #even #ever #everything #greater

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture. ↗

— Vivica Fox

#embracing #get #glad #hollywood #i

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#details #future #i #i think #into

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #been #children #deeply #drive