#polo

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#anticipation #virgin-suicides #love

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#polonius #shakespeare #love

I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas? ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#philosophy #theology #love

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species. ↗

— Joe Quirk

#apes #history #hominids #human #love

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#disputes #marriage #relationships #sorry #love

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#husbands #inequality #inferiority #marriage #matrimony

Fate is What You are Born With; Free-Will is What You Do About It” - Drø the Finder – ↗

— H.D. Rennerfeldt

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. ↗

— Ken Burns

#certain #film #going #grew #head

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#anthropologist #asked #before #called #came