#clan

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#clan #doctrine #honesty #honesty is #incompatible

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bin #bleached #clan #diversion #endless

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#clan #due #each #guys #kid

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #behavior #clan #contributed #godfather

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#blood #character #clan #easy #family

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended

Your eyes reflect my soul like shimmering pools, and your hair outshines the morning sun, at your smile wise men are but fools, all my senses, your beauty: stuns!” Jock MacAlister, Clanseed ↗

— James McAllister

#scifi-adventure #scifi-romance #beauty

Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees? ↗

— Erin Hunter

#humor #quest #skyclan #warriors #humor