#tent

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#also #assume #attention #aware #because

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#every #i #morning #old #old school

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#because #black #day #express #express yourself

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco. ↗

— Jeremy London

#getting #going #life #lot #my life

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#aligned #any #attention #basically #because

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. ↗

— Lucretius

#evil #persuading #potent #religion

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#experience #funerals #i #interested #meaning

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#being #being content #content #got #nobody

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#being #belief #beliefs #cases #content