#elves

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ↗

— Zane Grey

#higher #may #men #rise #selves

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#beautiful #beautiful people #being #comfortable #feel

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous

The core of my personality consists of many selves. ↗

— Hans Bender

#core #many #personality #selves

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#themselves #writers

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#another #our #ourselves #polite #recognition

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#buster #cameo #charlie #cos #course

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#helps #i #i think #larger #lives