#orr

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#being #comfortable #definitely #good #i

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dare #deal #good #good deal #hence

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christian religion #doubted #equally #general #hearing

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#body #consider #day #drain #enough

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. ↗

— David Byrne

#disease #face #glamour #horror #industry

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#power #reform #revolution #transfer

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#horror #life #suicide #death

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ↗

— Lord Byron

#deepest #know #knowledge #life #most

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#hearts #our #own #sole #sorrows

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#easy #i #kids #nice #often