#some

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. ↗

— George Eliot

#dubious #eggs #full #handsome #hopeful

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #had #his #into #maxims

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#i #interesting #life #no doubt #past

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#got #i #interesting #lot #me

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#accident #dead #fear #fears #most

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#crumbs #different #eating #feast #forever

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#caviar #champagne #dogs #had #hot

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#became #columbia #columbia university #drop #expected

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#enjoy #i #risky #something #stunt

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#even #keeps #postfix #process #requires