#gr

The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fall #falling #ground #dreams

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#american woman #angry #been #born #i

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#holds #i #kind #normally #person

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#early #getting #i #like #make

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

#decided #flying #future #get #grad

A hungry man is not a free man. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#free man #hungry #hungry man #man

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#positions #progress #resulted #took #unpopular

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#democracy #everything #faith #fight #government

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#attended #basis #century #great #nations

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom