#be

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#before #especially #features #geographic #give

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#belongs #desire #everything #his #human

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#life #names #person #real #real life

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#appreciate #better #civil #civil rights #could

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#back #backs #bent #comes #continuous

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bent #man #ride #unless #your

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. ↗

— Stephen King

#daily #daily lives #finer #god #higher

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#describe #feel #feelings #i #i wish

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#better #choose #curious #either #him