#lend

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#blood #count #eyes #gang #lend

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#around #certain #effect #feel #get

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#border #country #love #should #splendid

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#different #reading #rules #talking #them

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #comment #expression #i #i am

I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand. ↗

— Cat Cora

#because #end #food #forces #hand

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#approval #constant #most #own #splendid

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. ↗

— Noel Coward

#carelessness #equal #feeling #found #had