#us

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#because #down #meet #nice #people

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ↗

— Will Durant

#against #because #divided #machine #majority

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ↗

— Will Durant

#last #little #most #much #six

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal. ↗

— James Durbin

#american #american idol #cool #everybody #favorite

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#i #made #use #which

If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush-hush #nora #patch #motivational

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#anyone #better #else #i #important

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#contemplation #create #does #mere #our

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#genius #i #intervened #laughter #like

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing. ↗

— David Duval

#fragile #precious #precious thing #such #thing