#mess

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#come #covered #dust #fly #him

Behind every exquisite thing that exists, there is something tragic.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #mess #muck #tragedy #beauty

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#attack #break #buddha #dalai #dalai lama

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#against #army #chechnya #combat #economic

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#attain #because #beings #communicate #decent

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#given #image #important #me #messages

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being #being smart #confidence #feel #get

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#becoming #borrowing #decided #foreign #foreign policy

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#case #claim #end #events #future

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#consider #excuse #given #handed #handled