#pro

I don't compromise my principles for politics. ↗

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#progress #scientific #state #technical #which

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea. ↗

— David E. Price

#government #organs #panacea #party #proved

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#clearly #earth #how #inappropriate #ocean

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#feel #i #problems #sorts

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#i #i do #joel #little #mean

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#large #promise #soul

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ↗