#bj

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #how #i #i am #obsessed

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#afraid #always #i #lot #ludicrous

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#person #punished #remorse #severely #subject

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#denotes #exchange #existing #given #objects

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny. ↗

— Joan Severance

#difficult #funny #hope #i #like

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#obedience #object #primary #sound

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters. ↗

— John Sexton

#breath #catch #come #else #eyes

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#bids #gone #subjects

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#lord #lying #men #old #old men

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#country #expectation #individual #law #mental