#wit

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conquered #destroyed #great #itself #until

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #go #into #long #rebel

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#into #our #our world #tolerance #turns

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#am #body #breathing #collapses #cooking

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#thought #wait #without #you

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#definitely #desire #few #few people #innate

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#fulfilling #iraq #our #possibilities #preventing

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #feel #give #inferior

The more wit the less courage. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#less #more #wit

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#actions #been #emotional #feel #happen