#king

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#anatomy #biological #biology #brain #cognition

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#indirect #look #looking #relativity #sun

You are defined by the decisions you make. When one bites you in the ass the way you respond to it either makes or breaks you. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#breaking-up #couples #excerpts #free #heartbreak

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#delay #fear #future #haste #inspiring-quotes

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes? ↗

— Laurie R. King

#inspirational #laurie-r-king #mary-russell #sherlock-holmes #the-beekeeper-s-apprentice

You don’t need to drink to get over your feelings. Deal with your feelings that’s how you get over them, ↗

— Holly Hood

#inspirational #love #inspirational

Laughter is the sun which drives the winte from the human face. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#laughter #positive-thinking #inspirational

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#meaning-of-life #philosophical-musings #searching #thinking #intelligence

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. "And you so intelligent!" "Excuse me?" said tom "Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option ↗

— Stephen Fry

#smoking #witty #intelligence