#bout

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #cannot #everything #know #known

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ↗

— George S. Patton

#cynical #discover #lack #often #people

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#break #crappy #going #i #i love

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do. ↗

— George Pataki

#going #governing #governor #i #state

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity. ↗

— George Pataki

#budget #choice #easy #economic #economic growth

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#baby #bad #bad time #dog #gave

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. ↗

— Walter Pater

#attitude #before #brilliancy #day #discriminate

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience