#r

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect. ↗

— Lou Brock

#bat #battle #feels #go #into

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. ↗

— David Broder

#campaigning #much #office #organizing #presidency

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff. ↗

— Matthew Broderick

#any #fame #i #just #money

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#became #buy #did #first #first thing

The face of everyone in mine, the oneness with every blade of grass, the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies. The strength with every tree, rooting deep into mother earth, springing forth into the heavens, extending branches of gratitude and love.... Such a privilege, honor and grace, such a gift and joy. ↗

— Patsie Smith

#enlightenment #essence-of-life #inspiration #life #nature

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #awake #aware #chariot #entirely

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#debt #france #i #leave #pay

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#else #exhilarating #great #great thing #me