#rest

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#romantic

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ↗

— Alan Turing

#american #brain #company #developing #i

Change the world, I know I won’t, Enthralling as always I hope it remains, A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain. But my only wish as I take this jaunt, Is for my words on you to impress upon, A smile, a tear or even an angry frown. ↗

— Anurag Anand

#frown #indian-author #indian-authors #indian-quote #interesting-quotes

...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?... ↗

— John Geddes

#gratitude #love #restoration #love

Would you leave your world for me?" he asks. "I might" she tells him. She wonders how the world ever fell appart with this much love in it. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#hare-moon #the-forest-of-hands-and-teeth #love

The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#love #noise #trees #love

...I’m restoring my foreskin because I was born with one, and damn it, I’m going to die with one. ↗

— Kristen O'Hara

#foreskin #male-genital-mutilation #restoring #love

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty. ↗

— Frederick Barthelme

#marriage #quiet #restful #silence #marriage

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#day #every #every day #forces #hands

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#before #case #direction #even #i