#die

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#i #like #live #people #real

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#america #american #american dream #approach #build

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#brave #cause #depart #die #fight

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#die #disappear #i #i think #just

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#assassin #dagger #soldier #sword #weapon

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#amusement #because #friends #i #know

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#done #la #melodies #mostly #opposite