#ai

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#am #birds #close #come #darkness

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#concerned #either #far #life #much

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ↗

— Jules Renard

#empties #filling #heart #hourglass #like

(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#debbiepelt #funny #funny

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid. ↗

— Leah Remini

#entertaining #i #kid #mom #used

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#always #asked #because #complain #impossible

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. ↗

— David Remnick

#extent #mainstream #means #party #republican

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#fact #full #little #mere #morals

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#escapes #ever #except #expense #idea