#lt

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chess #clever #course #eyes #felt

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#because #believed #believes #book #collaborator

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#command #commandments #commit #covet #kill

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#best #between #day #difficult #exhausting

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#bruce #felt #had #herb #i

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#culture #idols #janis #janis joplin #joplin

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. ↗

— Chris Christie

#care #career #course #entire #entire career

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#domestic #enemy #fallacious #hostile #more

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. ↗

— Ward Churchill

#cannot #death #destruction #feign #foreign

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#chef #cooking #difference #difficult #even