#ann

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#leo-tolstoy #life #life-philosophy #life

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#artillery #bright #cannon #clear #could

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#everything #going #i #information #internet

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do. ↗

— Maria Bello

#always #become #going #had #help

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#another #beard #bin #channels #dad

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#fool #people #some #time #you

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. ↗

— John Berry

#better #cannot #capable #fail #good

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. ↗

— Milton Berle

#been #cannot #far #has-been #i

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#ginger #highlander #jessi #karen-marie-moning #life

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#any #anything #back #civility #consideration