#tho

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#forever #forgotten #lasts #lists #need

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin. ↗

— Big Pun

#i #kids #me #ones #sayin

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#bath #enough #even #fleas #go

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#although #chance #form #idea #paramount

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Without money honor is merely a disease. ↗

— Jean Racine

#honor #merely #money #without

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#deliberately #interpreted #our #strengthening #times

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#being #despair #doing #else #excitement

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. ↗

— Pythagoras

#oldest #require #shortest #those #thought

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines