#iv

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up. ↗

— Kevin Powers

#death #fighting #giving-up #death

We’ve met before you know?” I look at him a little perplexed and a little hurt that he hasn’t mentioned it. I nod my head indicating that, of course, I remember. Then with a low raspy voice I answer, “You remember meeting me and haven’t said anything up until now. Why?” With an equally low voice and the harshness seemingly gone in his tone, he says, “Why haven’t you, Dahlia?” He’s looking at me with his powerful green eyes and I know there’s no seeing the future in them right now. ↗

— Kim Karr

#equality

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know. ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#bad #fun #going #i #interesting

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#driver #happy #i #i am #longer

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#environment #everyday #furniture #given #human

Give me a sword fight any day. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#day #fight #give #give me #me

I want to be a matador in the bull market, but not so I can make a killing. Rather, I just want to wear flamboyant and form-fitting pants that emphasize my genitalia as I stroll down Wall Street. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jarod-kintz #matador #provocative #strange #funny

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#addict #admire #books #characters #created

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#control #life #miserable #motivational #people