#les

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#eternal peace #grown #mankind #only #peace

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#ankles #good-looking #knees #nearly #neat

Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#farewell-letter #faith

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#derive #doing #favors #feeling #gives

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#cannot #circles #escape #how #matter

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#became #because #big #caught #everything

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#back #back up #body #burlesque #come

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#among #been #charles #cities #days

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. ↗

— Tim Holden

#american #consumption #half #motor #oil