#ear

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#away #breaks #floor #hit #human

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#because #being #considered #cowardly #duty

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed... ↗

— Michelle Paver

#brother #danger #death #father #michelle

My fear is not death. I only fear GOD so as all of you should. ↗

— Nadair Desmar

#fear #death

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight. ↗

— Anne Heche

#been #call #clear #does #everybody

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#apt #full #him #himself #his

I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12. ↗

— Joe Heck

#appropriations #committee #cut #cuts #did

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#always #around #earn #had #house

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#also #become #childhood #come #comfortable

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#broken-hearts #love #relationships #unrequited-love #anger