#his

I understand, gentlemen,” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse. ↗

— Pierre Marshesso

#thriller #death

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#care #cared #democrats #eight #history

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#beauty #composes #distress #even #greatest

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. ↗

— William Kunstler

#american history #another #because #before #chicago

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

My brother never had me to dinner in his life. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#dinner #had #his #life #me

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#benefit #direct #history #human #human needs

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking. Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#death #dying #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way. ↗

— Erik Larson

#foul #got #his #hitler #just

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-same #this-business-of-art