#ra

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone. ↗

— James Lovegrove

#pain #past #suffering #tragedy #age

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#frank #get #going #had #i

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story. ↗

— John Saxon

#asked #autobiography #because #been #couple

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room. ↗

— Sandy Nathan

#health #humor #inspirational #new-age #age

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#lds #religious #uplifting #death

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#almost #became #endless #grandparents #mythic

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film. ↗

— Claudia Schiffer

#asked #film #going #him #i

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#hollywood #kind #place #temporary

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#average #day #deeper #done #down