#with

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lie #life #moderation #pleasures #ring

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#effort #situation #talent #tragedy #without

L.A. I could live without. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#i #live #without

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#children #father #growing #growing up #involved

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity. ↗

— Patty Duke

#having #ounce #without #you

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#anytime #could #dead #decide #die

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #concepts #contains #dumb #eye

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. ↗

— Black Elk

#first #known #men #nations #never