#be

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#appearing #been #begin #bore #burden

Learn to obey before you command. ↗

— Solon

#command #learn #obey #you

He slid over to me and grabbed me closer to him. My smile fell from my face with the unexpectedness of it. His hands cupped my face, his lips hovering above mine. “You seriously want to know, Tess?” He closed the space and claimed my mouth with an urgent, hot, delving kiss. He smiled. “You are sexy, in your own goofball way, you’re sweet and beautiful and smart and funny and, although you kiss to the point where I feel like I want to go back for seconds, you’re my best friend, and that’s why I don’t want to tap that. ↗

— C.J. Duggan

#boys #romance #summer #young-adult #beauty

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#every #every man #evil #good #good and evil

Funyuns make you fart," Caspian said, and I exploded in laughter. "What's so funny?" Ben asked. I tried to stop laughing, but Caspian was leaning forward now, his face stck right in between us. "Funyuns give you bad breath, too. Not very attractive to the ladies." He paused. "ON second thought... enjoy your Funyuns, Ben!" I had to bite the side of my cheek to keep from giggling. The fact that Ben had no clue what was going on made it even harder to stop. ↗

— Jessica Verday

#ben #caspian #funny #funyuns #funny

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#funny #twilight #vampire #funny

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#i #lessons #sing #singing #singing lessons

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#angry #any #awful #child #children

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#because #i #opposed #proud #vietnam

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#bring #cause #children #happy #healthy