#des

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. ↗

— Al Purdy

#i #kid #mind #my own #own

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#destroy #fight #prisons #shall #them

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#being #despair #doing #else #excitement

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#destruction #dungeons #duty #false #frightened

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. ↗

— Pythagoras

#oldest #require #shortest #those #thought

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#darkness #depth #descend #exact #exact measure

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#celebrity #designed #fair #fair game #game

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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He that hath no cross deserves no crown. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#crown #deserves #hath

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even