#ado

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#fear #great #half #i #i do

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. ↗

— David Trimble

#behind #dark #distance #forward #future

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#adopt #communities #existence #explain #explanation

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#ado #himself #man #much #nothing

Nathan: She's got you thinking this is how you’re supposed to be. It's not. We're young. We’re supposed to drink too much. We're supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other's brains out. We were designed to party. We owe it to ourselves to party hard. We owe it to each other. This is it. This is our time. So a few of us will overdose, or go mental. Charles Darwin said you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. That's what it's about - breaking eggs - by eggs, I mean, getting twatted on a cocktail of class As. It breaks my heart-you're wearing cardigans! If you could see yourselves... We had it all. We have fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful... ↗

— Howard Overman

#experimenting #humour #life-lessons #screwing-up #attitude

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. ↗

— Jack London

#beyond #cannot #comes #complete #ecstasy

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed. ↗

— Bill Maher

#any #banning #bed #cigarette #cigarette smoking

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#every #hot #light #lot #murder

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#brooks #cast #day #every #hearing

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. ↗

— Hermann Minkowski

#doomed #fade #henceforth #independent #into