#ty

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#amount #burning #course #destruction #gradual

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#american #back #beef #best #bse

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#decadent #god #life #beauty

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#after #ago #buying #camera #debt

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#fidelity #fling #love #lust #middle-age

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#beauty

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#authority #contradiction #exercise #over #same

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#catholic #certain #certain way #death #die

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #beauty

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#humanity #need #nice #rediscover #their