#arrow

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.' ↗

— Bo Bice

#american idol #because #career #evasive #front

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. ↗

— Truman Capote

#bones #cold #did #down #ever

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#hardens #hurt #makes #narrow #often

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#did #eye #feel #go #had

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#also #bone #bone marrow #eyes #feeling