#ff

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch. ↗

— Aaron Brown

#different #look #news #take #tv

People want variety and something that is affordable. ↗

— Bobby Brown

#people #something #variety #want

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#always #consistent #controversial #decisions #despite

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying. ↗

— David M. Brown

#flying #foot #good #guys #having

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#answering #christian #experience #furnace #god

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much. ↗

— Julie Brown

#go #griffin #i #i love #i think

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#chance #demand #efforts #heels #him

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage