#fourth

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. ↗

— David Garrick

#importance #indebted #three-fourths #you #your

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. ↗

— Grace Slick

#again #anything #asking #did #fourth

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#fourth-generation-warfare #change

What are you, a door mouse?!" Cloudtail mewed impatiently, prodding Lionblaze. Lionblaze looked up at the white warrior looking down at him, "Aww did you have to do that?! I was having a really great dream!" "And now you can go on a really great water patrol!" Cloudtail grumbled. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#emily-grenier #erin-hunter #lionblaze #the-fourth-apprentice #warriors

I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#fourth-grave-beneath-my-feet #death

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. ↗

— Anacharsis

#first #fourth #health #madness #pleasure

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt ↗

— Darynda Jones

#family

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring. ↗

— Samuel F. Smith

#freedom #independence-day #liberty #freedom

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#pretentious #accomplishments

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. ↗

— James W. Black

#attitudes #baptist #beginning #born #both