#rve

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ↗

— Karl Marx

#course #create #history #may #mouthpiece

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#dignity #enough #frank #generous #independent

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#backward #dinner #goodness #sake #serve

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep. ↗

— John Mayer

#being silly #compassionate #completely #curves #deep

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it. ↗

— John Mayer

#exactly #figured #how #i #i can

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done. ↗

— John McCain

#any #ask #battle #before #complete

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#different #feel #i #i always #i feel

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #breeding #capable #different

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#care #concerned #doctor #election #experiences

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#deserved #desirable #earned #hug #like