#the

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#calling #conflict #end #police #them

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#being #black #father #friends #getting

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#black #black sabbath #born #born to be #got

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'. ↗

— Lin Biao

#america #areas #asia #called #cities

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#else #everyone #give #his #honestly

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region. ↗

— John Bolton

#arabia #certainly #egypt #iran #nuclear

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable. ↗

— David Walliams

#company #i #i love #love #off

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#fallacy #fine #following #guilty #incapable

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#always #closet #daddy #early #father