#pa

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ↗

— Edward Everett

#apparent #battle #could #doubt #encounter

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#am #i #i am #panic #slightest

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#around #bit #cap #carried #club

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#court #court tv #day #end #everything

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.' ↗

— Rupert Everett

#bed #downstairs #go #guests #had

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ↗

— John Burroughs

#always #anything #currency #gold #having

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#i #i think #lots #other #part

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#been #capitalism #car #else #how

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#did #foster #i #impulse #parent

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#children #containing #devious #engines #filtering