#tate

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#england #graves #met #rule #stately

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#approximate #characters #example #followers #imitate

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#certain #consequence #election #individually #lincoln

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#humor #i #misery #often #out

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#assert #deserved #did #folly #healthy

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#make #mind #ourselves #putting #state

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian. ↗

— Russell Brand

#into #meditate #time #vegetarian #yoga

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#believe #big #big challenge #challenge #frankly

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#concerning #exchange #geneva #ideas #itself