#at

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#depression #kitchen #emotion

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#state

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!
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— Jarod Kintz

#baseball-is-boring #boring #cats #open #preference

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#conservative #liberal #states #united #united states

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#empathy #sadness #sympathy #comfort

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#danger #law #organized-religion #power #religion

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#state

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lies #state

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#weakness #state

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#state