#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

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. ↗

— Brian Clough

#dead #flowers #i #like #me

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

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#death #destruction #flowers #hear #i

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

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#colors #does #example #flower #for example

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. ↗

— Thomas Tusser

#flowers #may #showers #spring #sweet