#grim

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. ↗

— Anita Loos

#america #american #american life #billions #charm

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#change #climate #climate change #decades #discourse

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with God and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple cores that I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them become trees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that it was because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there something humbling I needed to know? ↗

— Kristine K. Stevens

#journey #pilgrimage #travel #travel-writing #truth

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#discovery #during #francis #head #i

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #better things #courage #effort #energy

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#giants #grim #like #peace #precocious

I feel like a pilgrim from the friggin' '20s! ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#i #i feel #i feel like #like #pilgrim

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#grim #hard-boiled #hard-life #hillbilly-noir #life-sucks-then-you-die

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful. ↗

— Michael Buckley

#beauty