#thou

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#thought-provoking

She may be an uggo, but that dress would turn anyone into a rock star. ↗

— Victoria Scott

#lol #rude-thoughts #lol

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. ↗

— RuPaul

#money #past #present #sins #thought

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#busy #corner #dejan-stojanovic #expensive #free

A real love is not having your beloved in bed but in your dreams and thoughts. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#beloved #dreams #real-love #thoughts-on-life #dreams

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #literature #literature-quotes #poems #poetry

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#changing #conservative #idea #liberal #only

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#auditorium #embarrassment #helping #here #i

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. ↗

— Robert Reed

#always #being #business #fiction #i

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#agree #away #back #because #been