#latter

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#being #determine #each #former #latter

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story. ↗

— David Icke

#cliche #connotations #does #full #green

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#every #flattering #i #marine #met

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#form #imitation #listening #may #sincerest

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #direction #electric #external #field

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ↗

— George Chapman

#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened