#sat

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#bless #concerned #i #me #offer

People seem to think I'm Satan. ↗

— Dominic West

#people #satan #seem #think

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#come #dealt #death #fear #forced

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#ceased #consciousness #disappearance #disappeared #every

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted. ↗

— James Blunt

#any #bad #british #conversation #description

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#her #long #look #own #perfectly

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#bread #death #end #forbidden #like

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. ↗

— Zac Efron

#back #business #careers #chances #could

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#first #giant #i #i can #james