#him

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. ↗

— Eric Church

#college #country #country music #dad #discussion

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eat #feeds #him #hoping #last

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fails #him #kill #man #prisoner

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#except #grown #himself #man #over

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. ↗

— John Ciardi

#constitution #damn #damn fool #every #fool

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#come #constant #daily #get #hard

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#because #clear #felt #first #first time

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beings #come #creator #even #fire

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#evil #himself #man #must #order