#ant

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#discuss #extraordinary #gave #i #orders

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me. ↗

— David Wells

#blame #curve #finger #hung #i

The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#feast #peasants #revenge #venison #food

People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#every night #getting #going #i #i do

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#barbarity #been #country #during #effort

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#degree #foundation #government #inhabitants #law

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #clubbing #excitement #feel #get

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#constantly #cultural #fiction #history #i

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#change #cinema #constantly #entertainment #kind

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#club #department #first #future #good