#our

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#count #four #know #make #men

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#discontent #does #enough #fed #fields

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#between #brings #choose #courses #death

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#hate #our #our time #searching #security

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#feet #four #hair #hoarse #neck

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#big #bottles #breakfast #coffee #cream

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#either #fathers #founding #founding fathers #hair