#ann

Adventure is just bad planning. ↗

— Roald Amundsen

#bad #just #planning

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. ↗

— John Andre

#british #commander #consider #country #death

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work. ↗

— Asia Argento

#down #enough #get #good #i

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. ↗

— Eric Gill

#know #makes #man #philosophy #religion

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ↗

— Dick Armey

#cannot #even #get #getting #while

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#creativity #force #labor #lash #may

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. ↗

— Tim Burton

#gluttony #humor #manners #humor