#kin

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#close #edge #going #i #i can

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blind #job #kingdom #man #one-eyed

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#deal #filmed #had #him #i

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#class #country #everyday #forget #great

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done. ↗

— Charles Williams

#against #back #church #done #feel

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ↗

— Bern Williams

#face #licking #like #psychiatrist #puppy

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State. ↗

— Dar Williams

#got #looking #really #state #tall

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin. ↗

— Dar Williams

#can-do #go #got #looking #then

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. ↗