#there

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#because #believe #dissent #everyone #fear

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#chick-lit #marian-keyes #family

We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#hunter-gatherer #paleo #food

The rocking of the deck beneath his feet made his stomach heave, and the wretched food tasted even worse when retched back up. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#food

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#you-had-to-be-there #humor

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#combine #deadly #decide #mind #none

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cannot #captain #collaborated #directed #extent

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business. ↗

— Peter Scott

#battalion #being #being there #business #everybody

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. ↗

— V.C. Andrews

#life