#vol

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#answer #chain #circumstances #complicated #find

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether. ↗

— James Payn

#benevolent #denying #far #hear #himself

When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#arizona #balk #civil #civil rights #claim

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call. ↗

— Austin Peck

#bullpen #call #called #casting #coming

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#evolution #know #proceeds #vague

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#every #every man #experimental #get #i

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#big impact #cannes #couple #far #film

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#american people #common #common ground #find #government

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#apply #basketball #develop #invite #outs

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. ↗

— Sean Penn

#i #i think #involved #movie #say