#ear

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion... ↗

— J.D. Robb

#fear #science-fiction-romance #death

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. ↗

— George Eliot

#asked #being #between #decrepit #down

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #humankind #much #reality #very

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#fear #handful #i #show #will

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#any #beyond #different #different emotions #emotions

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #began #behind #classical #dad

There can be no security where there is fear. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#security #where

The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#clearer #escaped #hourglass #life #more