#per

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#calling #cease #come #effort #environmentalist

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#deliver #developers #development #first #first time

Everywhere a man will be sure to meet at least once in his life something that is unlike anything he had happened to see before. ↗

— Nikolai Gógol

#life #experience

Love is the bond of perfection. ↗

— John Winthrop

#love #love is #perfection

I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes. ↗

— Len Wiseman

#beloved #books #comic #comic books #different

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#motivation #philosophy #self-realisation #age

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck. ↗

— James Wolcott

#circle #crashes #creative #deck #hairspray

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#certain #fixed #haunting #here #movement