#sol

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#decisions #force #his #historian #less

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#bed #charming #day #early #firm

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#even #everywhere #general #london #money

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#congregation #exceedingly #joining #prayer #solemn

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something. ↗

— Mark Morris

#bars #bigger #build #call #charge

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. ↗

— Edward Teller

#even #may #paradoxes #solution #suggest

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#else #fear #feelings #inflict #less

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anything #anyway #character #i #just

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#germany #identity #still #sweden #swedish