#mates

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#discovery #fascinating #i #i think #interesting

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

My teammates are the best. ↗

— David Ortiz

#teammates

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#eight #else #friends #group #had

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#again #america #certain #circumstances #climates

There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#express #forever #in-love #inspirational #love

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. ↗

— Ian Botham

#bad day #day #field #had #people

He took my hand in his. I gasped when our skin touched and looked into his eyes in a kind of shocked wonder, my eyes wide. His hand was smooth and warm, a few degrees warmer than it should be, and that heat sank into me, but it was not his heat that made me gasp. It felt like a storm resided within his skin and the moment our hands met, the storm and heat went raging through my veins, leaving my skin tingling and my heart fluttering while also making my blush deeper. It was like heat lightning, flashes of brilliance without sound that told of an impending storm. It awakened something within me, something I did not know existed, and took my breath away. I had never felt anything like it before. ↗

— Jasmine Dubroff

#beauty-in-itself-part-one #love #mera #soul-mates #the-omega-series

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#color #i #lack #magnificent #nature