#sing

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#risk-taking #risk

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#attention

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. ↗

— Richard Weikart

#darwinism #ethnic-cleansing #eugenics #evolution #genocide

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#kiss #kissing #kiss

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #crying #depressing #heartbreaking

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #george-orwell #ideas #media #news

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#religious #religious

I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower #advertising

While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness. ↗

— Victoria Michaels

#darkness #light #sunshine #advertising

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— Stuart Chase

#avoid #concrete #cultivate #delightfully #first