#pent

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#because #center #claim #freedom #fundamentalists

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#craft #day #developing #every #every day

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. ↗

— Robert Smith

#about #always #face #i #more

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. ↗

— Terry Southern

#control #damage #doing #finally #i

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#exist #impossible #love #repent #sin

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#comfortable #energy #find #i #instead

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#afterwards #big #during #first #getting

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#ending #ever #life #love #love is