Pressure

Pressure lives in the future, not the present tense. If you can live in the moment, then you can enjoy the pleasure of it.
--Joe Maddon

Materials

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comforable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
--George Orwell

Attention

The important thing was first to attract attention. Then, having compelled people to notice him, he could proceed to hold their attention by refusing to make the slightest sense.
--Lee Siegel (Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence)

Cleaning

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear; violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleaning of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
--Robert F. Kennedy

Dearer Stuff

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
--Barbara Kingsolver

Escape

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
--Marcus Aurelius

The Same

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same.
--Donald Trump

Brave

It's only during frightening times when you get to find out if your country really deserves to call itself the "home of the brave."
--Phil Klay

Forget

We forget that we don't always know what makes us happy.
--KJ Dell'Antonia

Decency

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
--Christopher Hitchens

Politics

When you have contempt for politics, you often get a politics worthy of contempt.
--Catherine Rampell

Created

We created God, and then pretended God created us.
--Louis Menand

Poet

I'm a poet, and I know it. Hope I don't blow it.
--Bob Dylan

Jew

As a Jew, I'm very judgmental. As a street Jew, doubly so.
--Sidney Lumet

Crisis

Only a crisis--actual or perceived--produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
--Milton Friedman

Sign

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
--Honore de Balzac

Coherent

The paranoid mind is far more coherent than the real world.
--Richard Hofstadter

Caged

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
--Tennessee Williams

Remembering

The very act of remembering...gives one the "raw material" needed to construct plausible scenarios of future events and act accordingly.
--Dan Falk

Kindly

No apologies are needed for treating anyone kindly, compassionately and fairly.
--Suzanne Clothier

Lost

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
--Rebecca Solnit