#robb

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#earth #emblem #give #greed #millions

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#evil #going #good #good and evil #robbers

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #idea #life #private #private life

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#advertiser #background #business #go #magic

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#hypnotized #i #like #really #robbins

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#because #being #called #child #had

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions