#once

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#ambiguous #finished #got #life #once

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ↗

— Alan Paton

#central #concern #issues #novel #publishing

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#clear #extinction #however #individual #nations

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#concentrated #edible #enables #evoke #food

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#carnegie hall #comes #concerto #done #feel

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help. ↗

— Steve Perry

#concern #definition #fend #god #gods

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#character #daughter #daughters #elder #had

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#energy #going #i #i always #immediate

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#before #born #concerned #family #far

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#dawn #dead #i #insane #more