#aught

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength. ↗

— Don King

#because #better #feared #help #i

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#beyond #both #conflicting #daddy #daughter

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#breath #drama #drama school #how #intake

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. ↗

— Anacreon

#brings #brothers #cursed #enslaved #love

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #know #philosophy #taught #time

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#book #children #daughter #fathers #four

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. ↗

— Victor Borge

#caught #cure #died #disease #father

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#21st century #century #confront #end #evil

I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days. ↗

— James Kavanaugh

#laughter #dreams