#oft

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#anti-virus #breed #change #combat #conceived

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#alone #anti-virus #cannot #even #first

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. ↗

— Jelly Roll Morton

#jazz music #music #played #plenty #rhythm

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. ↗

— Emile Zola

#having #i #myself #nuisance #often

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bisexual #bisexuality #choice #chosen #fact

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#accommodate #edges #give #group #most

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#bed #beds #close #dear #drawn

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery. ↗

— Diana Ross

#man #soft

It seared her senses; it made her feel alive, even as it sucked that life away - and she kept coming back to it, again and again. Waves of sensation pulled her under - drowning her. But Blue made drowning feel like the loveliest thing. Like she was losing her breath, but she didn't need it, didn't want it, only wanted him. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#kill-me-softly #kiss #mira #sarah-cross #life

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? ↗

— Mike Norton

#christian #citizen #communism #compassion #country