#ours

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#honest man #less #make #man #may

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#into #person #pours #puritan #righteous

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquired #affairs #assuring #born #control

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#decisions #doing #ends #get #god

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#because #connected #feeling #i #marvelous

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. ↗

— John le Carre

#ever #guess #i #i think #kill

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. ↗

— Angela Carter

#blameless #easier #far #intercourse #lead

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK. ↗

— Nick Carter

#better #else #know #long #ok

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#character #colours #courage #emerge #friends