#this

Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a tissue when I need one?” I turned my face away from Bones after a long moment, ending our kiss, and called out, “If you’re not too busy watching Hitman, I hear Dracula 2000 is a good movie.” “Vicious,” came Vlad’s reply, amusement clear in his tone. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#this-side-of-the-grave #vlad #business

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#entertain #fair #generation #i #kid

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#administration #already #america #begun #confusing

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #live #moment

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#administration #anonymous #best #gotten #i

Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking. Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#death #dying #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-same #this-business-of-art

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. ↗

— Mary McGrory

#appearance #courtroom #generation #grow #hair

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ↗

— John Waters

#george-w-bush #johnny-mathis #osama-bin-laden #imagination