#de

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long? ↗

— Anna Neagle

#bloom #chilly #country #days #far

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#mourning #death

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#best #broke #claim #doubt #falling

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#develop #i #lifestyle #presence #require

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. ↗

— Thomas Nash

#devour #flower #which #will #wrinkles

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#civil #civil rights #confirming #endanger #half

Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#death

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring? ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#desire #life #love-of-life #lust #ocean

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#building #category #destroyers #drags #human

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#belief #college #college students #commencement #into