#end

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. ↗

— Edward Koch

#city #corruption #endangered #knife #law

الحياة هي الفناء ، والفناء هي الحياة . عليه أن يعرف أنّ رغبة الحياة متآكلة ، أنّ مولّد المشاعر هو انهيار المشاعر ، أنّ استعمال القوة هو نهاية القوّة ↗

— Johannes V. Jensen

#life-lessons #novel #power #life

His wide mouth falls into amused lines. “Everything dies. There’s no way to stop that tide. In the end, all we have is the pleasure we take from life. For my people, it’s not long. I can spend my time crying or I can live . I can seek wonder. Haven’t you ever noticed that people tend to find what they’re looking for, my friend? ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#life

My standards were, after all, abnormally high." - the fictional ghost of Hugh Hefner, lamenting on sex in the after-life. ↗

— Michael Czyzniejewski

#curbside-splendor #hugh-hefner #life

Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#gender #life #life

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season. ↗

— Jerry Orbach

#end #gonna #i #july #know

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians

Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ↗

— Mae West

#love

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards