#ives

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does. ↗

— Viola Davis

#beautiful #beautiful thing #does #future #generation

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way. ↗

— Peter Davison

#calling #certain #dangerous #free #freedom

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#administered #approval #case #court #done

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. ↗

— Big Bill Broonzy

#cry #fact #fellow #forgotten #get

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

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#clean #detestable #i #kitchen #lives

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken? ↗

— Sitting Bull

#beat #broken #children #come #drunk

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#dealt #defeated #england #european #fate

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ↗

— John Calvin

#avoid #god #great #him #mighty

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it. ↗

— Kit Carson

#each #freely #gaining #gloriously #having