#not

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. ↗

— David Low

#another #bernard #churchill #each #even

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#arm #awakens #badge #between #certain

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. ↗

— Seth Low

#dutch #first #flag #foreign #forget

When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me? ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#dreams #going-unnoticed #reflect #thinking #waiting

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ↗

— Lucretius

#angels #another #each #embracing #fly

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

#always #another #attracted #because #close

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. ↗

— John Lyly

#knot #might #never #our #shall

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#another #books #doing #fabricated #going

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #come #deal #did #first