#rave

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#collectively #crave #deliver #goods #know

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#bed #book #even #feel #going

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. ↗

— John Gunther

#golf #golf ball #green #like #travels

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#fortitude #glory #man #strength #faith

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#also #been #before #began #did

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#actually #bands #deserve #especially #ever

I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend," he says. "The one who will memorise the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body, Juliette- ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#tahereh-mafi #unravel-me #love

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#air travel #california #christmas #each #far

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. ↗

— Thomas Ken

#dread #grave #i #little #live