#om

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#attended #company #goodness #love #men

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#stay-at-home-moms #life

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#become #get #hells #know #like

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#alive #anymore #few #forever #hate

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#apple #beautiful #becomes #believe #destroys

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#love #relationship #someone #stay #terrible

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#cross #jesus #jews #killed #political

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#action movies #around #because #difficult #especially

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' ↗

— James Belushi

#character #comedy #dad #did #funny