#ife

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly. ↗

— George Crook

#afford #aim #amount #been #greatest

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk. ↗

— John Gilpin

#desk #i #life #my life #spend

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#life #long #long time #most #my life

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun. ↗

— Robert Traver

#life #equality

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#before #big #big movie #enough #got

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. ↗

— Richard Nelson Bolles

#always #any #argued #becomes #change

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#country #doing #i #keep #mainly

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#life

I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#back #body #going #hair #i

I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ... ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#life