#sent

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that. ↗

— Keren Ann

#control #different #different way #even #later

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#first #food #fun #glamour #going

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#collect #i #moment #nice #only

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#appreciate #cannot #caught #changing #correctly

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethics #even #expansive #intoxication #new

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#common #common sense #folk #inspiration #let us

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. ↗

— Joe Barton

#best #flag #fought #founders #heroes

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on. ↗

— John Barton

#aside #cannot #even #failed #give

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#forces #hate #i #i believe #i believe that