#w

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#accomplished #breaking #control #cry #democratic

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them. ↗

— James Carville

#away #religious #run #should #teachings

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#heart #melody #never #paper #put

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #monogamy #sweet #want #beauty

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#coming #complain #did #earn #gift

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#full #fun #half #half full #i

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#acts #basic #complicated #courage #deal

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#am #being #conclusion #dealt #disease

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called