#corn

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#august #cornell #crack #dissidents #down

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#being #character #corner #dirty #down

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#how #human #human condition #integral #kitsch

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#centered #corny #feeling #happy #i

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #american experience #continue #cornerstone #experience

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#around #become #carry #corner #creature

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easy #escapes #fuss #history #quiet

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#being #big #biologically #child #cornerstone