#latter

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#affairs #army #chairman #father-in-law #fond

Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#first #flattering #gang #had #i

He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it was obvious from his nose and forehead that he wasn't some pig herd who had converted, but a true-blue Muslim who had flown here on a magic carpet all the way from Mecca, and he grunted with satisfaction ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#funny #funny

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#latter-day-saints #lds #maxwell #mormon #neal

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. ↗

— Hank Ketcham

#chewing gum #enjoy #flattery #gum #like

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#avoid #challenging #change #copy #course

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. ↗

— Democritus

#course #former #latter #mark #prudence

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #creation #development #does #final

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#believe #better #cannot #capital #country

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#francisco #going #latter #left #part