#pa

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#aggression #anecdotal #brave #broad #brutal

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#back #did #found #had #i

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#five #i #keep #lot #pay

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#hand #hired #i #paid #thrilled

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#decided #eager #foundation #geometry #i

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#approach #aware #become #companions #had

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#absolute #appalling #capable #charity #degree