#rating

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#birthday #bitter #creator #creatures #divides

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too. ↗

— Aberjhani

#crying #hopefulness #inspiration #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attended #been #celebrating #deeply #diamond

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #in my opinion #lot #making #making money

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#being #difficult #frustrating #i #i love

I love collaborating. ↗

— Fred Durst

#i #i love #love

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying. ↗

— Ben Folds

#artwork #behind #collaborating #dizzying #end

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#foreign #grown #iraq #majority #operating

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#anonymity #because #completely #favorite #favorite things