#ow

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #first #how #jokes #killed

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#employed #great #keeping #many #now

Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#may #never #own #perchance #today

I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#believe #go #goals #going #hit

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed. ↗

— Jude Law

#i #know #myself #never #programmed

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#fairest #flower #manure #nature #roots

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#burn #damaging #go #head #injustice

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer. ↗

— George Smathers

#comes #downside #everything #helps #life

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her