#versa

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#back #been #casual #conversation #divorced

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#between #coast #down #east #east coast

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#i #i think #marry #person #reasons

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#exercise #extension #franchise #great #invested

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ↗

— William Blake

#degrade #empire #englishmen #follows #foundation

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cause #devoted #equality #family #human

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. ↗

— John Abizaid

#conversations #enough #feeling #good #people

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence. ↗

— Felix Adler

#assembled #celebrating #country #evening #hundred