#bj

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#admiration #atlas-shrugged #inspirational #love #objectivism

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!) ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#bja #green-day #punk #sin #viva

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

#consent #crown #envy #excite #glory

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. ↗

— John Bolton

#classic #deterrence #happier #life #regime

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ↗

— Dave Barry

#contributing #factor #falling #gravity #involving

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#hatred #loved #most #objects #once

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#hell #hits #object #out #should

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#each #extraterrestrial #fifty #letter #lines

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#city #life #marvelous #notice #our

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#approach #good #good guys #guys #i