#sticks

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ↗

— Jean Harris

#people #person #poking #rat #rats

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it’s true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too. ↗

— Tom Jones

#paradox #the-fantasticks #music

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#fat #find #i #my own #own

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#always #could #doing #happen #know

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. ↗

— Michael Franti

#always #bones #break #exhilaration #felt

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#break #hearts #our #sticks #stones

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you. ↗

— Norman Reilly Raine

#down #far #fat #going #looking

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks. ↗

— Jamie Redknapp

#just #label #sometimes #sticks #you

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ↗