#come

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#actually #always #appearance #been #beings

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#become #change #growing-up #independent #into-the-wild

There is no hospitality like understanding. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#hospitality #understanding #welcome #friendship

Forget it,” I said. “Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he’d still be preferable to listening to the two of you. ↗

— John Zakour

#sci-fi #sci-fi-humour-comedy #life

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of? ↗

— Kim De Blecourt

#international-adoption #orphans #until-we-all-come-home #courage

But some things did not change... Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#courage #dedication #inspirational #change

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. ↗

— Epicurus

#come #concern #death #does #exist

You see what you expect to see, Severus. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#what-goes-around-comes-around #death

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed] ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#death