#oh

She shook her head. "I'm not leaving him. And I'm out here waiting only because I was making him crazy. The sight of me... isn't good for his mental health at this moment. I'm hoping that's no longer true after he breaks this second treadmill." "Second?" "I'm pretty damn sure that flapping and the smell of smoke about fifteen minutes ago meant he ran one of them into the ground." "Damn." "Yup. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#john #xhex #mental-health

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philisohpical #philosphy #writers #writers-block #writers-on-writing

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process. ↗

— John Abizaid

#clear #concerns #disrupt #event #hard

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#been #changes #expect #fellow #full

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.' ↗

— Bryan Adams

#day #i #like #oh #one day

It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#backup #become #body #carbohydrate #energy

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental

With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#alcohol #answer #been #compelling #crisis

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. ↗

— Fred Allen

#days #during #enjoying #had #johnson

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. ↗

— Tom Allen

#avenue #believe #community #congress #i