#rut

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, I as sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#truths #death

Is there anything else you haven't told me?" My head spun. So much had happened and we still needed to stop a powerful magician. Death was a real possibility. I needed Valek to know how I felt. "I love you" Valek wrapped me in his arms. "My love has been yours since the fire festival. If those goons had killed you, I knew then that I would never be the same. I didn't want or expect this. But I couldn't resist you. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#feelings #love #resist #truth #death

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#far #i #life #lived #made

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#found #laboratory #lots #never #practice

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i think #really #stern #think #truth

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ↗

— Malcolm X

#i #justice #matter #tells #truth

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#away #crutch #crutches #i #like

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.' ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#amp #declare #definitely #gates #going

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did