#wad

It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#nowadays #love

What happened?” “I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn’t work out.” “The world ain’t set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind. Messes up the natural order, otherwise. ↗

— Carolee Dean

#wade #nature

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#insists #longer #loves #misery #nowadays

It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays. ↗

— Carol Alt

#any #even #feel #gift #great

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fortunes #left #marry #men #money

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money. ↗

— Rob Andrew

#contract #elsewhere #england #get #just

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#get #i #kind #noticed #nowadays

So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway. ↗

— Maria Bello

#because #besides #hair #hiring #how

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadian #canadians #change #gain #hard