#via

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#get #leave #livelihoods #make #prices

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#consider #exists #fancy #i #me

I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#breakfast #coffee #day #eat #even

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#coat #dining #dress #evening #girl

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. ↗

— William E. Geist

#chilled #consistency #pressed #tar

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#decadent #deviant #hero #pervert #life

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#bookshelf #century #delivered #middle #paper

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#bearing #benefit #cost #decent #few

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#because #become #been #cast #comfortable

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#academy #alleviate #classes #economically #exploited