#ether

The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything. ↗

— Nathaniel Philbrick

#compromise #neighbors #working-together #courage

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. ↗

— Phillip Adams

#dangerous #diabolical #men #politicians #separated

Dated” in Selah’s book, being a euphemism for “had enthusiastic and frequent sex with”. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #dating

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#decide #democracy #flourishes #government #i

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#happiness #harmony #keystones #love #marriage

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant. ↗

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

#know #like #meant #whether

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#together #dreams

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#all night #apart #dream #each #i

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ↗