#red

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#action hero #creating #fabulous #female #franchise

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#conferred #practice #statesmanship

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance ↗

— Robert Walser

#life #nothingness #robert-walser #silence #tired

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. ↗

— Russell Baker

#assured #authorities #blues #days #good

Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me ↗

— Amit Abraham

#days #moments #remembered #time #life

There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore. ↗

— Jason Gann

#life #sun #wilfred #life

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all. ↗

— Eugene B. Sledge

#horror #time #war #life

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life #pain #life

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#character #down #incredible #slowly #swiftness

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#principles #self-centeredness #life