#om

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. ↗

— James Bovard

#another #any #avoid #bush #bush administration

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#delusions #happiness #happy #kind #man

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#fears #fewest #good #good men #great

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#fame #few #those #tombstone #truth

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.' ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#comedy #famous #get #girl #i

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach. ↗

— Bobby Bowden

#coach #explain #happen #happened #kind

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#coming #out #saved #someone #start

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #illustrating #near #novel #simply

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#innocent #lie #meet #round #seldom

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗