#bs

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

#compose #determine #differences #doors #families

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#had #i #male #movies #obsession

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#anything #eat #everything #generation #now

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works. ↗

— Ken Blanchard

#absolutely #away #back #believe #blessings

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#directing #involved #layers #process #something

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#bringing #children #comes #forefront #i

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#essence #manifestation #periodical #universe #unknown

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#fonder #grow #i #makes #tart

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Ray Blanton

#always #bring #does #essential #honesty