#lain

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

#consists #everything #nothing #perfection #plainly

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#angst #complain #existential #good #good life

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #children #explaining #forever #grown-ups

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#campaign #certainly #creating #democrats #developing

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#acted #celebrities #explain #good #hard

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#change #criticism #explains #interest #japan

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together. ↗

— Eric San

#explain #how #kind #put #together

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. ↗

— George Saunders

#explain #moments #sum #sum total #total