#dl

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ↗

— Robert South

#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever

Rekindled love is generally short-term. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #love is #rekindled #short-term

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#behind #believe #cancer #continues #could

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#good #good writing #great #i #lot

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#bundle #fears #i #i am #irrational

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#experience #happens #i #i remember #jot

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#also #beautiful #been #being #book

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#art #book #certainly #east #i