#red

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ↗

— Judy Davis

#dramatic #god #got #ideas #men

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#considered #everything #exacting #goes #less

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. ↗

— David Steinberg

#being #eighty #hours #hundred #lawyer

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#crime #evidence #guns #i #reduce

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#believe #children #credit #i #lend

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

#between #covered #every #explored #filmed

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#bar #bored #customers #denied #got

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#discovered #final #horrors #into #letting