#ya

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#every #guide #individual #know #language

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#i #jordan #kobe #kobe bryant #michael

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#enjoyable #girl #hold #like #looks

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#anywhere #beat #children #find #giraffes

A true friendship is one in which everything can be told, and nothing will be judged. ↗

— author unknown

#judgement #loyalty #friendship

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ↗

— Truman Capote

#book #child #finishing #just #like

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#ears #hundred #lived #night #our

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. ↗

— John le Carre

#betrayal #happen #love #love is #only

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word. ↗

— Maya Banks

#fever #jace-crestwell #maya-banks #beauty