#i

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death #heroic #life #death

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#death #grave #habits #issues #problems

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #great #importance #lastly #life

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. ↗

— Steven Adler

#bands #different #five #guns #guys

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#be different #different #into #itself #omnipotent

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#down #i #i can #matinees #myself

No, the czar did not want us in the schools. ↗

— Mary Antin

#did #schools #us #want

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#dies #his #life #lived #vain

Caidi to Jacin: "Do you know why I love you?" Jacin: "No." Caidi: "Because you love so big, even when you don't want to. Because you can't help it. And because you need it back, but you don't know how to take it. ↗

— Carole Cummings

#love #pain #family

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#american people #aware #concentration #fewer #great