#rio

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. ↗

— John Clayton

#chosen #christians #ethnic #instruction #nationalistic

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#aisle #appears #best #best friend #books

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#matter #men #military #serious #too

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#criterion #existence #harmful #i #lead

I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#never #period #story

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#atmosphere #been #beliefs #breathe #circumstances

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#childhood #developed #forth #heart #i

Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. ↗

— Vincente Fox

#attractions #average #culture #dollars #federal