#ken

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#dealt #defeated #england #european #fate

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique. ↗

— Skylar Laine

#just #lessons #since #singing #singing lessons

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ↗

— George Washington Cable

#darkened #decay #entered #gigantic #hung

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. ↗

— Michael Caine

#calm #dickens #duck #like #like a duck

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#been #before #camera #duty #embodiment

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. ↗

— William Cartwright

#awakened #births #born #both #count

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#begins #beyond #brightest #deteriorate #flame

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#back #belong #brooklyn #climate #club

As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#attorney #attorney general #connection #day #eight

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. ↗

— Jean Charest

#being #being different #different #history #identity