#with

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#because #believed #believes #book #collaborator

العبقري يخترق حجاب المألوف .. ويخرج من أسْر العادة .! ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#intelligence #thinking-with-a-great-mind #intelligence

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope! ↗

— Camille Claudel

#back #came #care #even #fun

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. ↗

— James Clavell

#gives #god #intelligence #nature #nothing

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#barbarism #civilization #degeneration #directly #gone

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. ↗

— Cleopatra

#been #could #fool #had #hundred

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ↗

— Juan Cole

#arrest #decision #early #his #how

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty. ↗

— Dan Coats

#allegiance #also #any #beliefs #connotation

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

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#escaping #giving #me #owes #without