#rand

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

#delightful #distant #elegance #forests #grand

I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now. ↗

— Kylie Bax

#grandchildren #i #like #look #now

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#aging #allows #being #case #children

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#errand #should #tunes #whistle #write

I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#around #aware #bit #brand #happening

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. ↗

— Bono

#i #i think #knew #madness #marriage

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#dispute #family #got #grandfather #honor

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#did #fund #grand #grand jury #jury