#visions

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#curse #get #idealism #into #materialism

The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#dreams

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

#chaos #dreams #effort #exorcism #i

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#actions #based #civil #civil liberties #found

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#clarified #clause #duty #further #initiative

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing. ↗

— Kevin Keegan

#below #club #disappointing #divisions #down

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#agreement #clean #coal #conference #conservation

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#avoid #comes #deal #easily #i

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united. ↗

— Martin Yan

#chinese #divisions #hong #hong kong #hope

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#big #cabin #fantasies #fire #foot