#ives

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. ↗

#amnesia #gives #impression #laugh #makes

If there's such a thing as somebody having nine lives, I guess I'm somewhat in that category. ↗

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#enough #fulfilled #general #general good #good

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#cherished #full #great #live #lives

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#draw #explore #gives #ideas #imagination

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#change #comes #creative #creative works #destiny

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#becoming #lives #memory

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies. ↗

— Pol Pot

#dies #gain #lives #loss #since

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#lives #obliged #respect #safeguard #strongest

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. ↗