#away

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri-s-point-of-view #hopeless #inspiring #richelle-mead #rose-hathaway

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#giveth #ottawa #taketh #then

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring. ↗

— Don Shula

#also #another #away #better #enough

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#dissing #everyone #job #like #messing

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#exceedingly #live #men #mine #quiet

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#amount #away #certain #character #charm