#low

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#flown #full #gets #like #nest

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it. ↗

— Beck

#comfortable #completely #could #doing #face

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. ↗

— Beck

#city #coming #full #i #malls

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it? ↗

— Jeff Beck

#because #come #i #i do #me

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#attraction #being #being strong #carries #carry

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#burns #cannot #endure #fed #flame

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals. ↗

— Paul Begala

#definition #fellow #fight #great #liberal

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#bible #bit #cell #consolation #could

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#follower #i #into #just #like