#feat

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#contempt #defeats #end #esteem #into

A lot of feature films do two pages a day. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#feature #feature films #films #lot #pages

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature. ↗

— Steve Largent

#access #battle #become #biggest #expensive

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. ↗

— Primo Levi

#carved #change #erased #even #extraneous

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#defeating #him #his #i #i love

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#campaign #church #closely #critics #decidedly

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#chain #different #different person #early #exception