#ben

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing. ↗

— Don Knotts

#idol #jack #jack benny #master #subtlety

I am excessively diverted. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

There's no jealousy in the grave. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#jealousy

I'm a benevolent dictator. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#dictator #i

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#each #individually #success #us

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#correct #could #customs #etc #faces

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe