#um

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#broke #child #feel #felt #first

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#everyday #everyday life #gets #human #intolerance

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#geese #make #march #spring #summer

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#country #development #human #human mind #into

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. ↗

— Max Lerner

#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort