#damned

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#could #damned #earth #saved #too

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #as far as #back #black #born

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dying #guarantee #i #mind #pay

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#album #bad #few #frame #get

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#car #cities #damned #forget #friends

People are no damned good. ↗

— William Steig

#good #people

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#damned #i #me #nobody #performance

There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. "What's that?" demanded Maury sharply. "That there's no lesson to be learned from life. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-beautiful-and-damned #beauty

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#harvard #heavens #i #real #see