#come

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#away #else #enormous #excited #getting

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#any #cartoonists #comes #freelance #hard

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bound #come #departments #form #nixon

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ↗

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#any #become #could #important #important thing

Did you slip in some cheese? Did it make you hate cheese, which you had previously loved? Why not sue a cheese-maker? Sue him for all the cheese he's got, drive him out of the cheese-making business! Did you burn your face with an iron? Why not sue Prometheus, the god that invented fire? Or an Iron Age chieftain, for having the temerity to popularise the metal. ↗

— Stewart Lee

#humour #age

Yes I'll come get you, and I will bring you home. I'll come get you, and I will bring you home. I'll come get you, and I'll say: Welcome home. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#i-ll-come-get-you #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #welcome-home

Do you always mix business and pleasure?” She flashed her most alluring smile. "Miss Stockton, when you own an inn, your business is pleasure. ↗

— J.M. Maxim

#business

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.) ↗

— Stanley Cavell

#happiness #hope #humor #marriage #remarriage

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#believe #courage #determination #having #means

Trina stared into her open kitchen cabinets. She was two and a half days into her pre-date-night ritual fast, and she was about to crack. Technically, she wasn’t going out on a date Saturday night, but Juliet was determined to have a man in her bed by the end of the evening. To be honest, Trina wasn’t really looking forward to tomorrow night’s manhunt. Sure, she was desperate for some hot monkey sex, but the thought of a one-night-stand was quickly losing its appeal. She wanted more than just plain, old sex. She wanted romance -- preferably with someone for whom she didn’t have to fast for three days to attract. ↗

— Lucie Simone

#hollywood #romance #romantic-comedy #dating