#les

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. ↗

— William Godwin

#enjoyed #far #indeed #life #merit

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change #dresden-files #fire #change

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#bring #brings #does #wisdom #wrinkles

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. ↗

— David Frost

#build #castles #conservative #labor #live

I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer. ↗

— Jenny Frost

#clubs #drunk #falls #girl #i

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ↗

— Elizabeth Fry

#criminal #lessen #punishment #reform #revenge

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#activities #activity #borders #businesses #economic

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#annihilation #appears #because #bombing #damage

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#ambitious #behind #certain #could #efficiency