#lower

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#always #any #blood #earned #followers

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#forms #grades #higher #kind #lower

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#about #being #connecting #considered #favorite

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#candles #doing #expensive #flowers #focal

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#back #brought #carry #cheerfully #child

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#before #faith #here #living #lower

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#across #ask #come #flower #i

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#chinatown #deliver #every #florist #flowers

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing