#same

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he ↗

— Walter Bower

#same-thing #sick #sickness #wolf #change

There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass. ↗

— Iain Banks

#homosexuality #queer #same-sex #change

...I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us... ↗

— John Geddes

#sameness #change

I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#cyd-charisse #drugs #gingerbread #high #humour

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#accept #here #i #me #same

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#any #based #between #brothers #calculations

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#around #businesses #diversified #each #had

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#coffee table #everywhere #i #i see #marketing

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ↗

— Mary Astor

#good #instead #journeys #make #sameness

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#effect #happy #hope #i #i always