#bs

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#been #business #i #inferior #lead

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#crisis #different #different areas #education #emotional

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind. ↗

— Edward Burns

#absolutely #betting #coming #doubt #film

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. ↗

— Ken Burns

#before #faulkner #history #i #just

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#angeles #auditions #back #between #british

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#flag #fly #geek #i #proudly

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #honest #i #me #seems

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic