#own

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#environment #fight #government #horrifying #our

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ↗

— Henry Adams

#man #only #through #who #woman

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. ↗

— Amy Adams

#down #high #high school #i #musical

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#demigod #demigod-files #insults #percy-jackson #put-downs

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#car #down #ever #front #last

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ↗

— Scott Adams

#create #engineers #like #own #problems

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#blunder #committed #dear #debarred #his

Finance, like time, devours its own children. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#devours #finance #like #own #time

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#both #his #man #must #own