#hen

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#century #created #deliberate #during #europe

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! ↗

— Jay Leno

#average #average people #ever #fat #first

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#god #kinds #people #right #say

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#choose #deem #deems #him #invade

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#blow #called #dad #funk #i

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#billy #bob #had #harmony #hen

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#band #chase #check #ended #ever

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#disappointment #enthusiasm #even #followed #renewed

I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#burners #even #how #i #i am

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#ferocious #i #lives #more #much