#hum

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers) ↗

— F. Sionil José

#good #humans #men

Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch’s men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey. ↗

— Harry Turtledove

#humor #men

Then there are the simple things. The way she fits against my side when we’re sitting together. How she can silence my addled thoughts with one look. The sound of my name from her lips. The way she can make a moment, any moment, a thousands times better when she is there. How the simplest pleasures in life become exciting with the promise of sharing the experience with her. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#forever-and-a-day #friends #future #human #inspiration

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #work #attitude

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#human #humanity #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

I am the Hooray Distributor. Hold your hands flat, not like begging for money, but as if you’re about to applaud. Now clap, damn you.
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— Jarod Kintz

#applause #beg #begging #clap #clapping

She's wacko. I should have known she was wacko from the beginning. She had a thing about spies. Was always watching those stupid Bond movies. I'd be banging her from behind, and she'd be watching James Bond on the television. Can you believe it?" ~(Written during Pierce Brosnan's 007 days so, yeah, I CAN believe it!) "Four To Score ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#movies

I think that, along with a hunger drive and a sex drive, humans have a disappointment drive. Why else would we uphold high standards, get haircuts, and see movies our friends raved about? ↗

— Finbar Kelly

#movies

You know that movie ‘Dumb and Dumber’? If there’s an addition of a third member, I’d get the part of ‘Dumbest’. ↗

— Martin Reed

#movies

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#nothing #wisdom #wisdom