#eats

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#anarchy

I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #magic-slays #threats #tea

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#curl #easy #i #me #need

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#basis #even #flashes #getting #hot

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #color #different #different color #different kind

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#country #dear #history #iran #our

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#delayed #gotten #long #many #struggles

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#itself #never #patterns #political #repeats

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. ↗