#nat

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#character #habits #i #mind #natural

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#beautiful #cole #day #emulate #favorite

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#always #flowers #see #them #those

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#error #extraordinarily #men #nature #opinion

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#civil #consult #god #ministers #nature

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lesbian #life #reincarnation #life

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#bands #desirous #foreign #guerrilla #indestructible

Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism, which in practical effect put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ↗

— William Brennan

#attitude

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good. ↗

— James McAvoy

#always #boy #christmas #did #ever

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ↗

— John McCain

#collective consciousness #consciousness #core #dare #deeply