#longs

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. ↗

— Tacitus

#hate #human #human nature #injured #nature

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#based #belongs #conceptual #consciousness #deeper

The beauty of the past belongs to the past. ↗

— Margaret Bourke-White

#belongs #past

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Willa Cather

#down #gets #great #itself #last

There’s a penis in my penne pasta. It’s my penis, but that doesn’t mean it belongs there.
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— Jarod Kintz

#belonging #belongs #food #pasta #penis

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#content #lacking #nothing #realize #rejoice

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#belongs #corporate #families #going #government

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ↗

— Lord Byron

#certain #desire #life #prolongs #tis

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#children #i #live #me #mother

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#belongs #end #freedom #goodness #hurry