#ps

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them. ↗

— Ram Dass

#free #go #got #i #i see

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. ↗

— Mac Barnett

#detectives #middle-grade #proverbs #quips #sayings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ↗

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas. ↗

— Larry David

#country #dawn #home #me #more

I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face. ↗

— Fan Binbing

#anyone #balm #beautiful #beauty #because

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ↗

— Ray Davies

#groups #i #i think #more #songwriting

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#book #depends #experience #feeds #great

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#always #basis #friendships #hatreds #politics

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. ↗

— Bette Davis

#challenges #dead #doing #key #life