#bse

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#american #american men #american women #boring #gain

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#chambers #class #europe #had #having

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ↗

— Karl Marx

#meaning #meaning of #opposition #peace #socialism

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. ↗

— Rollo May

#absence #ahead #capacity #despair #move

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#going #happening #hollywood #i #italy

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#big #big deal #body #bothers #culture

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#also #am #class #conducting #earth

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#always #am #dreamed #flight #go

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#angry #being #crap #i #immoral