#nsa

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friend #i #indispensable #long #love

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friend #i #indispensable #long #loved

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!' ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#because #begins #boring #conversation #days

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#been #composer #delicious #experience #falling

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#being #capital #companies #incorporated #indispensable

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#before #build #city #closed #doors

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#courtesy #government #handled #indispensable #most

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#call #cologne #exercise #fortune #going

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#color #explain #object #perception #position

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#deeply #insane #instead #must #quite