#thin

I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#anywhere #birthdays #buy #choice #coming

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feathers #highly #men #nothing #quicker

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ↗

— Lord Byron

#face #got #harlot #hold #hope

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#because #ever #film #home #house

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. ↗

— Lord Byron

#breaks #every #given #me #mind

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. ↗

— Lord Byron

#strange #strange thing #stranger #thing #woman

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#century #descriptions #each #gone #kings

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. ↗

— Lord Byron

#book #in print #name #nothing #pleasant

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#anything #call #external #external things #good

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? ↗

— Joseph Butler

#consequences #deceived #desire #should #them