#ions

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#elections #fools #government #intelligence #masses

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#fathers #generations #knowledge #relationships #sons

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own. ↗

— Barbara Delinsky

#life #rain #life

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#life #relationship #resolution #death

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns. ↗

— Claire Cook

#relationships #soulmates #life

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending that things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#life-lessons #perspective #life

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs. ↗

— Parker J. Palmer

#soul #life

I've never attended any Tea Party functions. ↗

— John Bolton

#attended #functions #i #never #party

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#dealing #i #least #like #merit

Cilvēkus vienkārši vajag saprast, viņa domā. Un pasauli vajag saprast. Nevar tā – maukt visus kā kurpes uz vienas liestes. Katrai ādai savs izliekums, vīle, kūkums. Lai to ieraudzītu, vajag klusumu un laiku. ↗

— Inga Ābele

#people #relationship #life