#nsa

The simplification of anything is always sensational. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #sensational #simplification

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ↗

— Freya Stark

#awaken #quite #sensations #strange #town

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #been #compensated #does #healed

You have to be insane to direct. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#insane #you

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#any #because #giving #giving up #incapable

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#elections #fighting #indispensable #more #part

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation. ↗

— Van Cliburn

#sensation #success

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. ↗

— Jones Very

#bequeathed #converse #even #feel #greatness

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty