#laced

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dead #life #living #memory #placed

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#civilization #distance #himself #his #man

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#people #replaced #should #thinking #would

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#because #go #goals #i #lap

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#born #certain #come #dies #film

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#accepted #believe #blame #capitalism #change

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#burden #danger #difficulty #duty #even

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#disappear #face #fault #globe #go