#straight

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart. ↗

— Shamim Sarif

#i-can-t-think-straight #love #friendship

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#politicians #psychedelics #squares #straights #behavior

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#experience #eye #firm #handshake #hiding

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. ↗

— Todd Barry

#being #being funny #call #characters #comedy

I am not the first straight dancer or the last. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#dancer #first #i #i am #last

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#along #avoid #covered #crosses #fields

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#because #both #doing #i #little

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#before #building #climbed #could #crazy

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#mind #run #straight #confusion

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty