#hem

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them. ↗

— Eric Bana

#come #i #i can #kids #reason

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#considerable #had #i #many #meeting

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#correct #could #customs #etc #faces

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#am #experiments #fools #i #i am

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#comply #diplomatic #doing #effort #exhausted

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#complete #had #indians #living #major

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#brutes #buffaloes #circling #crowded #forte