#ourselve

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. ↗

— David Strathairn

#culture #film #learn #literature #our

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#because #either #extremely #important #iran

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#covered #find #front #journalists #kid

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it. ↗

— Bertha von Suttner

#good #never #seek #will #within

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#make #ourselves #political #should #stand

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#ask #attacks #defend #must #ourselves

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#because #brains #effort #explain #how

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#leave #ourselves #touch #traces #whatever

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite