#pressing

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#because #being #being responsible #conversation #depressing

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. ↗

— Clare Short

#basis #been #brief #liberals #pressing

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#about #depressing #doubt #fathering #fathers

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#feelings #galt-niederhoffer #life #spontaneity #summer

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ↗

— John Green

#humor #wise #humor

...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time. ↗

— Chang-rae Lee

#change

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#inspiration #inspirational

It's a wonderful life if you can find it. ↗

— Nick Cave

#depressing #inspirational #inspirational

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#anything #around #dance #dancing #desire

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#does #enslaving #european #feel #free