#lain

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#captain #else #fights #had #i

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#explain #five #i #live #minutes

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#complain #more #painful #than #those

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it. ↗

— Dick Dale

#explaining #i #put #sheet #songs

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#about #another #complaining #days #doing

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#any #because #becoming #comfortable #feel

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#church #desire #did #duty #farther

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction