#lan

I was always influenced by language. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#i #influenced #language

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#departments #ensuring #homeland #keep #local

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#calls #fatherland #itself #murder #ready

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#language #life #may #modern #shall

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#become #fatherland #inclined #more #nobody

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#deserve #easily #elizabeth #emperor #england

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#because #curtis #focus #go #i

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ↗

— Og Mandino

#always #best #do your best #harvest #later

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#evil #life #nature #beauty

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet? ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#bernard #doing #finished #haven #helping