#che

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. ↗

— John Hersey

#clock #cursed #general #hulk #looking

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock. ↗

— John Hersey

#came #certain #could #days #diarrhea

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him. ↗

— Zac Efron

#cherish #could #fight #him #i

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#archeology #been #civilization #clearly #demonstrated

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#check #dealing #does #get #government

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#bush #came #cheney #corporate #corporate interests

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dedication #determination #drive #endurance #life

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#big #branches #bud #changing #drop

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#granting #i #i think #interviews #making

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. ↗

— David Hilbert

#branches #construction #developed #disclosed #does