#ems

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#holy #jews #judaism #problems #religion

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. ↗

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

#been #characters #dealing #events #fair

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#enjoy #everywhere #know #ordeal #people

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ↗

— Bill Russell

#harder #harder time #letting #love #most

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#enjoy #eternal #eternally #how #life

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#carrying #confident #makes #more #others

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-lessons #point-of-no-return #problems #struggles #life

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. ↗

— Orson Welles

#anything #audience #becomes #contribute #get

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves. ↗

— Anthony Collins

#enough #equal #render #themselves #things