#ow

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#drag #keep #level #never #them

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#believe #best #come #everything #i

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#grew #jonah #like #party #power

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#high #knows #rises #whither #who

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#captain #else #fights #had #i

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#love #others #responsible #say #some

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#earlier #evolved #filmmaker #films #how