#lib

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ↗

— Elias Canetti

#disaster #even #every #eyes #into

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make. ↗

— Drew Carey

#bad #feel #filled #guilt #hollywood

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#anything #deliberately #deserve #does #length

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young. ↗

— Michael Vick

#always #arm #ball player #been #certain

I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#beach #characters #church #could #done

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. ↗

— Robert Casey

#am #because #certain #democratic #disproportionate

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#his #honor #insupportable #liberty #life

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bound #especially #i #incredible #library