#lara

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#excess #excessively #exhilarating #fun #long

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fear #glorious #gloriously #had #inspirational

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#blue #commitments #declarations #face #make

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#back #big #big shot #coasters #down

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#bad #bad taste #exhilarating #giving #offense

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#cultural #declaration #human #human rights #must

What we have is divine. It's beautiful and good and right. I feel it..." He presses his his hand to his chest, over his heart. "I feel it all the time. You're in here, part of me. You're what I go to bed thinking about and what I wake up to in the morning. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#love #tucker-avery #beauty

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cannot #declarations #desired #doubt #into

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#declarations #desired #doubt #mere #no doubt

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#even #observes #polite #politeness #rules