#in

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. ↗

— David Broder

#campaigning #much #office #organizing #presidency

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#became #buy #did #first #first thing

The face of everyone in mine, the oneness with every blade of grass, the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies. The strength with every tree, rooting deep into mother earth, springing forth into the heavens, extending branches of gratitude and love.... Such a privilege, honor and grace, such a gift and joy. ↗

— Patsie Smith

#enlightenment #essence-of-life #inspiration #life #nature

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #awake #aware #chariot #entirely

The day they put me in the net I had a good game. I've stayed there since. ↗

— Terry Sawchuk

#game #good #had #i #me

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#else #exhilarating #great #great thing #me

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#instincts #will #win

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess