#ills

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#god #life #man #slay #struggle

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#i #paying #soon #started #success

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#bit #end #i #i tried #kids

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

A man can do all things if he but wills them. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#man #them #things #wills

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#even #get #go #got #how

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. ↗

— William R. Alger

#god #highest #league #peace #secret

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially

I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#because #bills #feel #i #i can