#lex

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. ↗

— James F. Amos

#comes #corps #flexibility #go #hardship

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex. ↗

— Adam Ant

#complex #heart #how #learned #like

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#core #crime #criminal #evil #hypocrite

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. ↗

— John Astin

#called #complex #conventional #could #deep

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film. ↗

— Bille August

#amputated #considers #fanny #film #his

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ↗

— David Bailey

#dyslexic #i #put #school #silly

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #eoin-colfer #orion-fowl #focus

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#destiny #epic #experience #general #human

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. ↗

— Jack Adams

#carrier #did #group #japanese #launch