#blush

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#almost #animal #any #anytime #blushing

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#contain #first #kinetic #matter #me

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#compared #ensemble #make #polished #savages

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#crimes #less #men #than #their

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. ↗

— Henry Constable

#blush #her #lady #lips #makes

The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#blush #changed #charlie #convince #date

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ashamed #blushes #guilty #innocence #nothing

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them. ↗

— William Kunstler

#blanket #blush #died #down #dream

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#blushing #called #hero #i #kind