#is

As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted. I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?" "They did wish for that," answered Jamie. ↗

— David Guterson

#love #wish #death

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#existence #let us #moral #us

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

#campus #committee #community #designed #discovery

I haven't always made the right decisions. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#decisions #haven #i #made #right

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it. ↗

— James Dickey

#imagine #mission #never #result #saw

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career. ↗

— Angie Dickinson

#being #care #career #consistent #i

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#being #being famous #captain #could #down

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#known #longer #myself #prism #shall

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#rare #tell #truth #truth is

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse