#om

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#both #cannot #create #god #greater

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#become #boyhood #men #must #our

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#composition #enormous #fantasy #good #good taste

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#common #common interests #impossible #interests #laborers

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#become #comfortable #drop #fat #gain

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#car #drink #getting #had #having

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gloom #morning #night #death

I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#car #control #experience #felt #freeway

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#became #i #sort #spokeswoman #unwittingly

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#becomes #behind #car #certain #certain point