#quite

I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own. ↗

— Graeme Simsion

#humphrey-bogart #ingrid-bergman #love #unrequited-love #love

It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me. ↗

— Serena Grey

#excitement #falling #falling-in-love #love #unrequited-love

You wanted a wife but I was still a girl. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#love #love-story #lovers #marriage #marriage-proposal

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts. ↗

— André Aciman

#love-and-loss #unrequited-love #love

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life. ↗

— Karen Allen

#dynamic #i #interesting #life #other

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#capital #capital punishment #exposing #full #gave

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader. ↗

— Pol Pot

#leader #modest #people #quite #tell

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#correct #evening #i #i think #quite

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #economically #financially #important #itself