#wi

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#audience #character #death #i #into

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#everything #optimize #unhappy #will #you

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals. ↗

— Donal Logue

#close #deals #domestic #dvd #even

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld. ↗

— Ed Markey

#become #beheld #enemy #fight #inhumane

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

#alone #creation #day #god #lifes

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#cry #into #poets #sleep #steam

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#arms #disarmed #knowledge #men #returned

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#business #constituency #corporation #customers #economic

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#chance #great #player #take #take a chance