#highlight

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#beauty

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#belly #best #highlights #i #laughing

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession! ↗

— Mark Goddard

#better #cameo #career #doing #done

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#been #certainly #given #highlight #i

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#death

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing... ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#family

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins ↗

— George Orwell

#equality

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#around #because #colors #course #covering

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#florida #highlights #importance #known #making