#ty

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#big business #break #business #easily #impunity

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power. ↗

— Selma Lagerlöf

#trust #weeping #beauty

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show! ↗

— Julie Chen

#big brother #boss #brother #i #i can

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#coming #generations #learn #love #poverty

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#because #blind #does #exist #just

A book is the only immortality. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#immortality #only

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live ↗

— Mark Leidner

#pitchforks #sincerity #beauty

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ↗

— Frederic Chopin

#after #art #crowning #emerges #final

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#body #humanity #must #new #out

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two. ↗

— Chris Christie

#anybody #being #best #i #number