#former

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#former #friend #only #write #you

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. ↗

— Eric Massa

#believe #candidacy #cheney #commander #david

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#been #does #doing #envelope #everybody