#ture

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#become #cannon #care #children #fodder

Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. 'I was trying to make up the sofa bed so you could get some rest,' he explained, and pointed to the second sofa across the room. 'Unfortunately, it would appear that that is the sofa bed, and this, apparently, is just a sofa. ↗

— Derek Landy

#furniture #humor #humorous #mistakes #death

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#different #different cultures #everyone #haven #i

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#days #headline #international #only #photo

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#choice #expresses #fact #forces #homosexuality

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#body #changing #characters #every #everything

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#both #feet #firmly #i #mature

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor. ↗

— Emily Procter

#big #brown #colonial #early #floor

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ↗

— Quintilian

#fortune #future #present #than #worse