#som

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. ↗

— Rumi

#cup #disappear #fills #front #hurt

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#connect #destruction #dots #gun #happens

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#always #enough #long #may #money

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#dirty #getting #into #metabolism #plays

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#frame #i #may #mind #myself

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#cannot #destroyed #else #find #first

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#achieve #better #better world #certainly #clear

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#i see #other #see #side #somebody

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

#envisioned #held #i #i think #mind