#mo

Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä] ↗

— Väinö Linna

#killing #morality #war #life

Stone me, what a life! ↗

— Tony Hancock

#life #misery #life

I haven't slept with him, Mom." I whispered, lying through my teeth. I just didn't want to discuss my sex life with her. She would probably critique my oral skills or something. "I should have known. You don't sleep with anybody. That's why you can't keep a man. ↗

— L.D. Davis

#new-adult-romance #life

Morality negates life. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life

It's good to plan, but don't let the planning take the place of doing. ↗

— Karen McQuestion

#life #life

People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you. ↗

— Patti Digh

#bullies #bullying #courage #humor-inspirational #business

Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being. ↗

— Laura Anne Gilman

#morning #new-york-city #people #business

Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#motherhood #business

I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say? "I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mercenary #business

Life goes on. E-mail stops for no man ↗

— Michael Scott

#life