#van

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#age #care #great #i #minds

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dew #evanescent #flash #human #human life

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#advantage #being #every #every man #himself

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. ↗

— George W. Bush

#american #freedom #strength #use #wisest

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#cause #diversity #effective #i #intention

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#i #me #remain #servant #will

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#application #fine #nothing #rough #skin

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ↗

— Lord Byron

#being #care #fame #know #known

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost