#con

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#awful #cause #contemplate #death #endless

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. ↗

— Theophrastus

#characters #conditions #consider #course #distinctive

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#bought #buy #christmas #continued #dad

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#content #disguises #extreme #important #lack

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#dead #dealing #door #drag #faces

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#contributor #effort #forces #forward #iraq

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#here #home #need #take #terrorism

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#believe #constituted #consume #frisbee #genuine

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer