#hem

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#already #arrived #know #only #simple

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#beautiful thing #become #call #catch #concentrate

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ↗

— Robert Plant

#another #duration #effect #feeling #goodness

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. ↗

— Plato

#done #great #happens #intend #just

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ↗

— Plato

#ill #live #may #men #nobody

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#people #seem #should #speak #them

Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admired #been #conservatives #his #liberals

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening