#bs

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. ↗

— James Buchan

#dictators #east #justice #middle #middle east

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#came #clubs #day #during #everything

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake. ↗

— John Bunyan

#either #god #heart #oft #our

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#dealings #demands #france #his #minh

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#been #business #i #inferior #lead

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affirmative #almost #black #colour #colours

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#crisis #different #different areas #education #emotional

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind. ↗

— Edward Burns

#absolutely #betting #coming #doubt #film