#observations

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. ↗

— Juliette Fay

#observations-on-life #unexpected-humor #unexpected-life #wry #age

Food always sounds optimistic when you have it and pessimistic when you don’t. ↗

— Boris Zubry

#food

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations. ↗

— Judith Anderson

#aspects #express #i #i am #inspired

...,I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema ↗

— Gore Vidal

#age

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#efforts #gives #meet #much #observations

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

#critical #degrees #had #him #his

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#make #more #observations #observer #ourselves

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#connected #considerably #consumers #establishes #exercises