#fold

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. ↗

— Steve Albini

#before #blindfolded #enlightening #know #more

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#country #difference #here #hundredfold #i

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

#certain #cover #culture #description #each

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. ↗

— Aeschylus

#manifold #mortals #nowhere #same #seen

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#big #big picture #compassion #connect #different

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. ↗

— Anita Desai

#i #own #rigidly #story #structure

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#before #i #i love #i think #just

Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding. ↗

— Wolf Blitzer

#looks #pretty #race #serious #unfolding

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits