#ill

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#his #million #resilience #rubber

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. ↗

— Gary Larson

#earth #even #inherit #lowly #message

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #first #how #jokes #killed

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#fairest #flower #manure #nature #roots

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#cafe #find #get #habit #hard

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney. ↗

— Alfred Emanuel Smith

#how #matter #slice #still #thin

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#how #however #little #live #long

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. ↗

— Blaine Lee

#exercises #himself #honor #inside #leader