#ill

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#conviction #ever #happen #life #nothing

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. ↗

— George Will

#class #even #income #mail #means

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#job #owner #second #single #who

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#buying #customers #definitely #internationally #noise

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ↗

— Hal Borland

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ↗

— Anne Frank

#i #misery #remains #still #think

When all else is lost, the future still remains. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#future #lost #remains #still

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama