#any

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#critic #fireman #i #life #met

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#anything #been #cooper #had #here

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#change #civil #condition #custom #important

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. ↗

— Julia Child

#come #does #eat #economical #food

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#hurt #i #me #offensive #want

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#aware #did #everything #growing #growing up

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#fall #fear #get #love #record

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy. ↗