#d

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#men-and-women #waiting #men

I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#back #cd #could #disc #faulty

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#another #around #carry #committed #crime

I'm completely hooked on polo. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#hooked #i #polo

I have a rude thought every three seconds! ↗

— Lee Ryan

#i #rude #seconds #thought #three

He settled in beside me, and I curled into him. Cocooned in Wes. God, it felt so good. “Thank you,” I whispered. “I’ve never felt so amazing.” “I wanted you in my life from the beginning, Mal. Any way I could have you.” He snuggled me closer. “Even if it meant just as friends.” I couldn’t help snorting. “Thank God that’s not the case.” He chuckled and gave me a squeeze. “Amen, my friend. ↗

— Missy Welsh

#friends-to-lovers #life

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#also #believe #christ #cross #faith

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble? ↗

— Evan Sayet

#barack obama #be humble #been #humble #need

I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart. ↗

— John Fowles

#seduction-technique #age

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#truth #dead