#us

No more separations. At last united, bound for life, and when this life is ended we meet again in the other world to remain together for all eternity. Yours, Yours. ↗

— Empress Alexandra of Russia

#romanov #russia #tsar #life

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #author #come #easily #great

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #downstairs #feel #hear #impulse

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#call #door #drum #free #hotel

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#box #box office #course #discussion #does

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#around #baggage #being #could #devote

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#future #grow #our #time #trust

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#certain #desperation #i #make-believe #used