#wit

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ↗

— Herodotus

#always #become #being #bit #fun

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#activity #alive #be happy #energy #feat

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ↗

— John Hersey

#fiction #gives #history #journalism #live

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#faith #huge #i #life #my life

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects. ↗

— Barbara Hershey

#because #effects #events #falling #human

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#cuts #daily #daily life #fish #how

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#contemplation #general #just #monks #our

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#fate #fathers #goal #goes #jewish