#core

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#almost #amazing #balances #been #checks

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#applause #encores #had #happiness #i

Pasmo sempre quando acabo qualquer coisa. Pasmo e desolo-me. O meu instinto de perfeição deveria inibir-me de acabar; deveria inibir-me até de dar começo. Mas distraio-me e faço. O que consigo é um produto, em mim, não de uma aplicação de vontade, mas de uma cedência dela. Começo porque não tenho força para pensar; acabo porque não tenho alma para suspender. Este livro é a minha cobardia. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#inner-self #life #solitude #life

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#missing #score #sharp #worry

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#commercialism #core #core-of-the-soul #core-values #devil

At their core, things are essentially good. Except apples. At their core, they are trash. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#good #trash #change

...don't tell me I should only talk to people with a high influence score, or I'll Klout you... ↗

— John Geddes

#influence-score #klout #twitter-quotes #twitter

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

You are dead- what am I speaking to? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#iorek #lee-scoresby #afterlife

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape. ↗

— Eric Bana

#bottle #come #core #easily #essence