#vent

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #child #did #frightened #i

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. ↗

— Victor Borge

#caught #cure #died #disease #father

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#age

He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place. The hundred-year-old man set off in his pee-slippers (so called because men of an advanced age rarely pee further than their shoes), first through a park and then alongside an open field where a market was occasionally held in the otherwise quiet provincial town. ↗

— Jonas Jonasson

#goodbye #man #old #age

You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-stories #coming-of-age-novel #the-wayward-gifted #age

Write what you know. ↗

— Mark Twain

#adventure

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#challenged #cherished #concern #deep #determination

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ↗

— Jonathan Gilbert

#result #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing

I've been an amature inventor for a long time. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#i #inventor #long #long time #time

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#complex #politicians #unconventional #war