#sit

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. ↗

— Anita Desai

#back #backwards #begins #believe #book

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#another #down #dumps #else #i

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am. ↗

— Andy Dick

#am #cry #deeper #drop #easily

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' ↗

— Bill Dickey

#catch #catcher #day #did #every

A person in my position has to restrain himself. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#person #position #restrain

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#how #i #i do #man #opposition

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks. ↗

— Larry Doby

#being #blacks #bring #going #hard

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#diversity #eliminating #good #good way #i

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#cannot #community #escape #furthermore #heaven