#non

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. ↗

— Joan Baez

#flop #nonviolence #only #violence

What you believe can change your experience. ↗

— Staness Jonekos

#nonfiction #women-s-health #beauty

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ↗

— Joan Baez

#flop #non-violence #only #organization #than

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#bureaucrats #criticized #disagreements #ever #found

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that. ↗

— Christian Bale

#enjoy #i #i do #insanity #like

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#closer #comes #concepts #eternal #eternal peace

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#economics

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#ball #breaking #career #fastball #i

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#bank #everybody #going #got #interested