#lists

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #else #go #individualists #nation

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ambiguities #avoided #been #experience #idealism

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#attention #duty #feel #look #make

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#classics #exposed #focus #great #guys

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#best #best time #college #enough #face

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off. ↗

— Lewis B. Hershey

#better #better off #hog #hogs #know

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment. ↗

— David Viscott

#allow #feel #lists #now #people

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. ↗

— J. T. Walsh

#material #materialists #metaphors #our #such

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#described #english #heard #i #i think