#hum

I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#dating

A few dollars can buy a sugar rush, but when pleasure is followed by diabetes - that is true happiness. You look back on your life and marvel at how good you had it. You look forward to all the opportunities you have to make health changes in your lifestyle: cross-dressing, turning gay, voting democrat - no one can judge you when they see that insulin pump. Yes, diabetes is the great panacea of our age. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #lifestyle #age

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#atrocities #beliefs #color #creed #happen

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #concerned #effective #forcing #generous

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. ↗

— James Bryce

#also #country #humanity #justice #only

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— James Buchanan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#blessings #crossing #fulfillment #great #highest

They've turned this character into a human being. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#character #human #human being #into #turned

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#intelligent-conversation #intelligence