#wit

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#bad #emotional #good #i #made

The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#god #his #more #nation #people

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

#earth #error #evil #found #greatness

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#doing #down #foot #his #into

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#far #found #funny #haven #i

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council. ↗

— Javier Solana

#council #disarmament #eu #european #european union

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. ↗

— Solon

#learning #people #rich #rich people #sheep

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#jump #just #many #mechanisms #might