#wi

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#hanging #head #horrid #house #into

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#argue #body #brains #law #pay

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#bands #control #guitar #guitar player #how

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#away #ever #faith #take #will

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. ↗

— Dogen

#become #body #clear #follow #ideas

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#authority #criticism #dangerous #equate #find

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#escaping #giving #me #owes #without

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming