#ex

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#constructed #does #event #expectation #life

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#exploitation #law #made #misery #naked

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#piano #experience

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#deals #interest #manner #material #obscene

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#been #force #great #human #human life

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make. ↗

— Nick Stahl

#been #brutal #darker #doing #experience

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. ↗

— Andre Breton

#easily #even #exaltation #experienced #feeling

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. ↗

— Layne Staley

#child #closest #death #devastated #enough