#thin

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#before #especially #features #geographic #give

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#belongs #desire #everything #his #human

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#life #like #ominous #real #real life

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. ↗

— Stephen King

#daily #daily lives #finer #god #higher

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#complicated thing #memory #relative #thing #truth

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#conflict #least #more #parties #peace

It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#glorify #go #i #like #never

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#everybody #i #just #marriage #married

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws? ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#could #existing #fair #fashion #laws