#we

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote. ↗

— Jane Campion

#andrew #because #biography #fresh #how

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bush #contend #down #establish #every

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #harold #likes #listen #perhaps

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#agriculture #any #arduous #contentment #getting

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space. ↗

— Gil Kane

#find #fired #generally #get #had

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. ↗

— Albert Camus

#ceaselessly #condemned #dreadful #fall #futile

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#invent #know #must #procure #rulers

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#after #brings #buy #competitive #dollar

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#adverse #because #borrowing #competitive #countries

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#handful #his #i #knew #know