#lain

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#countless #countless millions #dawn #died #down

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#complexities #did #ended #explain #hughes

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#complaints #end #i #listen #tomorrow

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it. ↗

— Mink Stole

#anyone #big #big adventure #case #chance

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#apologise #back #because #changed #cool

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! ↗

— John Green

#complaining #funny #graduation #humor #john-green

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#change #complain #does #habits #man

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#book #certainly #could #enriched #explain

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#hollywood #me #priests #usually #villains

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. ↗