#wit

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled. ↗

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#different #fannie #freddie #good #mortgage

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself. ↗

— Celine Dion

#balanced #connected #emotionally #especially #find

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#government #long #opposition #secure #without

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #life #nothing #read #theory

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#every #every nation #must #nation #public

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗