#co

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ↗

— William Morris Hughes

#cross #current #empire #like #once

I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tiny aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#dream #ocean #sea #dreams

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals! ↗

— Albert Camus

#complication #death #slavery #war #death

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream ↗

— Rachel Caine

#rachel-caine #shane-collins #death

Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people! ↗

— Michele Jennae

#music #relationships #music

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#greatest #mankind #syphilis

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#doing #i #now #positive #things

don't ever take tightly your little dreams ↗

— Nida khalisah

#dreams-coming-true #dreams

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone. ↗