#age

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#fat #laugh #age

Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#condom #food #fruit #funny #humor

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #life #age

Love is meant to be sipped, rather than chugged, like a glass of wine you drink strait from the bottle.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #love #wine #age

Love is bread and water to the soul. My relationships are quite soggy.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#humor #love #relationships #age

We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn’t just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves—has allowed us to be “sub-creators,” as J. R. R. Tolkien says--we may rightly take delight in the things that we (and others) make. Reading for the sheer delight of it—reading at whim—is therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is. ↗

— Alan Jacobs

#age

Uh, do you mind?" I glanced down and saw something far scarier than any demon. A guy. My age. And I was on top of him. Straddling his hips. Oh, jeez. ↗

— A&E Kirk

#age

This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are. ↗

— Alice Walker

#alzheimer-s #age

I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie ↗

— Tara Michener

#bullying #middle-grade #multicultural #multiculturalism #tara-michener