#simi

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. ↗

— Catherine Coulter

#men #sex #simile #telephones #men

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin. ↗

— P.D. James

#pessimism #posterity #the-future #men

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism! ↗

— Matthew Quick

#pessimism #inspirational

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#inspirational #love #simile #tree #trust

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. ↗

— Idries Shah

#egocentrism #pessimism #change

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#pessimism #inspirational

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#more #music #play #range #really

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple. ↗

— William Taylor

#growing #growing up #ideal #like #marriage

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defy #fear #how #human #hunger