#roan

As his lord stared at the door another figure appeared, a girl of about fifteen with long, rather wild black hair. She was gauche in movement and in a sense, ugly of face, but with how small a twist might she not suddenly have become beautiful. Her sullen mouth was full and rich – her eyes smouldered. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#beauty

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. ↗

— Aeschylus

#burden #burdened #disease #doubles #groans

His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon one whose whole nature was the contradiction of his own. He knew that behind her simplicity was something he could never have. Something he despised as impractical. Something which would never carry her to power or riches, but would retard her progress and keep her apart in a world of her own make-believe. To win her favour he must talk in her own language. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#steerpike #imagination

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#empty stomach #failing #full #groans #human

A spa?" "Yeah, Avalon Spa, you know the place near the mall?" "Oh, right. What do you do there?" Again, the nervous glance at the floor, and the small flush of color rising up his neck. "I'm a masseur. Which I know sounds phony as hell, but I'm licensed and everything. Also, my clients are women- the only men at Avalon are the ones on staff. And while I've got nothing against women at all- I'd have no friends in high school if it weren't for women- I find them as sexually attractive as roadkill possum." Roan had to swallow back a laugh. "Don't tell them that." "Oh, God no! I'd never get any tips then. ↗

— Andrea Speed

#roan #men

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ↗

— Robert Browning

#bent #carve #ever #groaning #how

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#creativity #doorway #effort #give #groaning

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show. ↗

— Dave Attell

#down #groans #i #laughing #mind

The best prayers have often more groans than words. ↗

— John Buchan

#groans #more #often #prayers #than

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#groans #hundred #laugh #market #worth