#sat

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers; vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining." - from "The Tarishe Curse ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#compensation #deceit #destruction #retaliation #retribution

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip. ↗

— John Bolton

#hamas #i #ruling #satisfied #simply

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #lively

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#god #his #own #satisfied #work

Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference. ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#sarcasm #satire #education

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#conversation #e-mail #exchange #intimate #more

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. ↗

— Lactantius

#concerning #crete #enumerated #gods #having

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#going #i #i am #keeps #me

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#exactly #found #how #i #just