#tent

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#cry #fact #hitherto #i #indeed

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#i #intention #need #planning #retire

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#attention #easier #justify #leave #many

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#content #enjoy #feel #finally #going

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#first #incompetent #lawyers #refuge

CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#life

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#humanitarianism #ideology #motivational

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#good #intentions #motives #people #motivational

I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#motivational