#des

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#despotism #government #liberty #revolutionary #tyranny

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#desire #kiss #me #out

I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#drive #feel #got #i #i feel

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#few #great #men #never #occupies

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#hardest #i #i think #the hardest thing #thing

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. ↗

— Frances Burney

#anything #create #cruel #despite #earth

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#all day #am #because #day #desk

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#am #because #been #daughters #day

Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her. ↗

— Dan Butler

#her #i #i love #know #love