#ding

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#beaches #cost #defend #fields #fight

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#buildings #our #shape #thereafter #us

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#another #become #damages #fair #injuries

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#came #contract #dancer #did #doing

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#dean #ended #fired #friendly #from time to time

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better. ↗

— Danny Brassell

#motivation #reading-habits #motivational

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#beings #feminism #forms #humanism #i

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#audience #certain #contexts #depending #i

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#battle #fighting #finding #killing #know