#ene

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#beauty

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. ↗

— George W. Bush

#benefit #children #come #demands #directed

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#idleness #labor #writing #yet

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#amateur #complex #dad #goes #happened

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#anymore #away #energy #face #friendships

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#done #enemy #i #look #lost

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#benefits #born #children #country #everyone

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#few #first #gotten #happened #hard

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#allowed #any #closely #criminal #eliminate