#lit

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#been #between #difference #men #politics

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#expressing #i #into #like #little

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. ↗

— Anne Seward

#flatter #i #indeed #myself #possibility

I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock. ↗

— Joel Silver

#high #high school #i #jock #little

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#concerned #get #i #our #politics

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#art #banality #because #belief #common

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#always #away #character #different #every

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#american #among #history #human #human race

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists