#the

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#decisions #funny #i #made #poorer

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#politics #the-world #thinkers #political-philosophy

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#been #case #church #community #death

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#among #architectural #describe #details #enough

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#champ #i #like #probably #run

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#around #belly #books #copy #done

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind... ↗

— Ben Hecht

#dreams

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along. ↗

— Fred Ward

#beginning #changed #changes #cop #in the beginning

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#believed #bringing #classes #government #growth

Awwww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face. ↗

— James Dashner

#the-death-cure #death