#us

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#extremely #handle #i #i can #me

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#deceiving #employed #injustice #made #may

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#believe #coastline #defense #else #i

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetite #because #disinterested #else #equally

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#human #human nature #nature #objects #other

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#changing #could #here #i #leaning

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure. ↗

— William Allen Butler

#keeps #lofty #secure #she #state

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#effective #objectives #states #suspicion #terror

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#back #because #become #biological #bit