#vere

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#covered #only #throne #velvet

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#comparison #easy #importance #others #our

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#concerning #covered #gets #goes #lot

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ↗

— Bono

#heroes #made #mistakes #ones #recovered

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#business #committed #everest #fischer #hall

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#america #best #bring #deeds #genius

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#i think #really #shortcut #sovereignty #think

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #lost #recovered #them

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#basic #book #each #hand #hold

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#always #classes #discovered #drawn #during