#would

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#baker #become #compelled #craft #curious

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. ↗

— Mary Antin

#close #command #congregation #czar #emperor

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#being #being honest #honest #i #me

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #appreciate #day #different #felt

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#good #how #i #look #never

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

#choice #concerned #determine #determined #excellence

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ↗

— Aristotle

#friends #goods #had #live #other

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#also #been #doing #done #film

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#designer #did #dreams #entertain #fashion

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#aside #aspire #because #cast #considered