#ill

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#blood #care #confided #countrymen #descendants

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#brain #clearer #come #end #even

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#downhill #had #i #learnt #once

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#governments #individuals #kill #killing #long

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. ↗

— Epictetus

#bring #find #pass #seek #them

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#because #been #being #brought #correct

Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong mint toothpaste. Any food with hard edges or sharp corners that could pierce or abrade the inside of her mouth: potato chips, croutons, crunchy peanut butter. Any food that was more than infinitesimally, protozoically, spicy or tangy or salty or acidic: pesto or Worcestershire sauce, wasabi or anchovies, tomato juice or movie-theater popcorn. Certain pamphlets and magazines whose paper carried a caustic wafting chemical scent she could taste as she turned the pages. Perfume. Incense. Library books. Long hours of easy conversation. The ability to lick an envelope without worrying that the glue had irritated her mouth. The knowledge that if she heard a song she liked, she could sing along to it in all her dreadful jubilant tunelessness. The faith that if she bit her tongue, she would soon feel better rather than worse. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#pain #faith

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#away #because #big #bill #bus

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ↗

— Epictetus

#gain #glory #greater #more #pilots

Honesty will never break you. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#honesty #never #will #you