#aged

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#man #tragedy #uses #war #worst

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#battle #before #brave #brave soldiers #crucial

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anymore #appear #attached #become #even

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#because #business #come #crumble #decades

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#late #life #old #soon #too

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#get #get married #hang #hang in there #hanging

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#back #become #come #difference #enraged