#on

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#else #ever #going #i #i can

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#always #bed #cat #come #dog

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#love

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. ↗

— Maria Bello

#falling #falling in love #head #heels #idea

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#falls #life #loss #possession #shadow

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#c-s-lewis #life #living #play #religion

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them

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

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#call #dyed #hand #her #own