#list

What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing. ↗

— Kirsten Miller

#realistic #beauty

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#actor #guy #him #listening #talking

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#female #had #main #now #ourselves

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass. ↗

— Adam Brody

#come #i #i can #i wonder #kick

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#hears #listening #murmuring #murmurs #subconscious

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ↗

— H. C. Bailey

#miracles #must #order #realist #you

Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you? ↗

— Tony Brown

#appear #certainly #democratic #democratic party #does

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#among #been #education #except #form

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#i #i can #kind #knowledge #life

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. ↗

— Julien Benda

#beautiful #europe #honors #ill #inform