#rise

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. ↗

— Ursula Hegi

#life-in-small-german-town #rise-of-nazis #life

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#american actors #anybody #because #came #chance

I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight.
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— Jarod Kintz

#midnight #noon #sunrise #sunsets #love

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#magical #surprise #love

He pulled her close kissing her mouth taking her by surprise. He stepped back passion smoldering in his eyes. She looked at him touching her mouth where his kiss still burned. ↗

— Amanda Stephan

#love #passion #romance #surprise #the-price-of-trust

I see now why they call it 'falling' in love. It's a tumble that catches you off guard, surprises you, scares you, bumps you around, sends you spinning into the dark. But eventually, you level out, and enjoy the rush of free fall. ↗

— Joseph B. Phillips III

#jason #jason-phillips #joseph #joseph-b-phillips-iii #love

You can only fall in love once the next time you rise with it ↗

— Amit Abraham

#love #rise-above #love

MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #the-dom-s-dungeon #men

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#enterprise #life #new-clothes #old-clothes #life

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#agreement #any #bill #both #colleagues