#diction

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. ↗

— Dave Barry

#breed #dictionary #fashion #models #more

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide. ↗

— Bob Filner

#activity #cities #estimated #gang #had

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#environmental #every #fossil #fossil fuels #fuels

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

#door #except #impossible #know #lie

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#always #am #food #how #i

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?' ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#bad #buzz #even #fighting #give