#yin

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it. ↗

— Ilka Chase

#could #creator #fool #had #him

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#altogether #bed #ceiling #colored #draw

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#dying #know #life #people #thing

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#big #everyone #life #little #little things

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#artist #creative #creative energy #energy #failure

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anything #because #company #executive #fired

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#communicating #i #me #read #saw

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences