#rei

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#begin #boy #correspondent #equivalent #foreign

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#american #because #certainly #cnn #crazy

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#end #india #integrated #modern #must

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#child-bearing #dear #deity #sovereign

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#cause #first #intention #just #necessary

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#barbra streisand #cher #growing #growing up #ideals

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#down #family #idea #interesting #interesting idea

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#breaths #indolence #life #loan #manifest

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #been #collective #consists #divine