#venting

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#consists #enjoying #generally #greatest #greatest pleasure

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now. ↗

— Clare Short

#dealing #discussion #finding #going #honest

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#opposed #pregnancies #preventing #should #unintended

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#i #i love #invented #inventing #love

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

#go #inventing #letters #liked #without

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#children #enhancing #health #need #pregnancy

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. ↗

— David Antin

#contradictory #disney #fortune #idea #imaginary

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. ↗

— Michael Bay

#breaks #business #challenges #director #fast