#flower

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ↗

— Albert Camus

#autumn #every #flower #leaf #second

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. ↗

— Chanakya

#flowers #fragrance #goodness #only #person

I want my flowers while I'm alive. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#flowers #i #want #while

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #back #democrat #flowers #hall

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#building #dignity #empowerment #flowers #gender

The Amen of nature is always a flower. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#amen #flower #nature

There is no road of flowers leading to glory. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#glory #leading #road