#we

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ↗

— Voltaire

#country #his #need #serves #well

What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever." Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#jack #love #neferet #power #truth

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poets #famous-quotes #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #flowers #global-village

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#china #fewer #fewer people #future #people

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#fun #game #going #hole #miserable

A good garden may have some weeds. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#garden #good #may #some #weeds

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ↗

— John Updike

#adult #bore #consumes #each #half

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it. ↗

— Paul Gallagher

#i #supposed #thing #thought #were