#rove

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#attention #correct #each #his #improve

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#bet #everyone #go #hedge #looking

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#courage #coward #gang #goes #hide

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#improve #today #tomorrows #you #your

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#believe #believing #cannot #help #immortality

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#approved #me #point #screen #see

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis. ↗

— Danny Masterson

#car #city #crank #day #drove

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#bright #buildings #cable #chicago #clear

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern. ↗

— James McGreevey

#anything #being #child #concern #deliberately