#al

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#bores #chivalry #dragons #past #succeeded

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #fiction #hunter #jean-claude #paranormal

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#away #because #been #definitely #field

I like good strong words that mean something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #words #strong

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ↗

— Anne Frank

#strong

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#bubble #different #energy #friends #fun

I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#buddies #buddy #craig #golf #guys

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al-qaeda #any #between #collaboration #communicate

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes. ↗

— James Dickey

#depending #even #feel #fire #flash