“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”
David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”
David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician
"Love Strong"
The Poets And The Prophet (2006)
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. http://www.hud.gov/news/speeches/presremarks.cfm (June 18, 2002) <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter
22, written by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback.
Song lyrics, Red (2012)
“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”
Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher
On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver.
Système des Beaux-Arts (1920), as quoted in The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less) by John M. Shanahan, p. 34
Variant translation: We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
“Google knows everything about us but we know nothing about Google.”
Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist
The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch
Source: The Goldfinch
“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer