#lame

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ↗

— Walter Pater

#burn #ecstasy #flame #hard #life

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#blazing #how #lives #many #other

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool. ↗

— Katy Perry

#feel #i #lame #like #very

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#choose #democracy #free #get #man

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #blame #called #congress #ever

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. ↗

— Plato

#end #his #lame #life #man

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. ↗

— Plato

#blameless #chooses #god #his #who

Neither blame or praise yourself. ↗

— Plutarch

#neither #praise #yourself

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#believe #blame #convenient #everything #generally

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#forgetting #forgot #happy #how #lot