#mel

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness

The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views. ↗

— John Dingell

#broad #country #democratic #democratic party #different

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#being #i #kind #love #melancholy

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#guitar #i #i love #love #melodic

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#advance #because #catch #figure #finish

So I'm sitting in that damn chair, ready to die, and I say to her, 'You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I'm so damn glad you're going to kill me instead of some brainless, toothless druggie." Beckett smiled again at the memory of his almost-murder. "Then she traded the knife for her lips, and now she works for me." Beckett put his hands behind his head and flexed his giant biceps. "She won't tell me who hired her to come here. She's the deadliest person I've ever encountered. I still think she might kill me, but I can't stop looking at her. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#debra-anastasia #homeless #poughkeepsie #beauty

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#bar #best #candidates #country #eventual

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events. ↗

— Dario Fo

#aim #always #borders #completely #contribute

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#community #education #extremely #faith #hard

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ↗

— Anatole France

#contain #dull #extremely #history #history books