#than

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#governed #mankind #more #reason #than

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ↗

— Scott Adams

#idiot #more #nothing #resourceful #than

taciturn, adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard you with conversational crowbars, but now I simply let the apartment fall mute. I hear you in the room -- turning on music, typing on the keys, getting up for a drink, shifting in your chair. I try to have my conversation with those sounds. ↗

— David Levithan

#lover-s-dictionary #music

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand. ↗

— Metallica

#arrogance

When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fakery #having-many-faces #hypocrisy #hypocrites #more-than-one-face

Conversation between Jem and Ethan on Sean: '"... Has it never occurred to you that maybe your brother brings out the worst in people?" "Or the best," he said, "depending on which way you look at it." "You're as bad as he is." "Actually, I'm much worse. ↗

— J.A. Belfield

#ethan-holloway #holloway-pack #jem-stonehouse #paranormal-romance #sean-holloway

Be not wishing and pining, but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#contentment #gratefulness #longing #pine #pining

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ↗

— Jack Adams

#class #first #first class #got #me

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced