#war

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#depression-quotes #endure #happiness #life #recovery

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#academy-awards #film #movies #theater #theatre

Scott goes to the computer and loads a chart that says something about global warming. Scott says, "See?" Judy says, "I don't think global warming is important, people shouldn't need to use global warming as an excuse to stop being wasteful." Scott says, "How can you not believe this?" Judy says, "There has been golf ball-sized hail storms and hurricanes for a long time, it didn't just start all of the sudden. In the movie Al Gore drives in an SUV." Scott leaves to have a cigarette. Cory says, "Al Gore owns his own farm." Judy stares at the TV. Judy thinks, "No one in this room cares about global warming, this is ridiculous, we are all smoking cigarettes and eating cheese, how can any one of us care about voting? No one in this room cares about anything. ↗

— Ellen Kennedy

#movies

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#movie-set #war #movies

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor". ↗

— David Gilmour

#edward-james-olmos #film #miami-vice #movies #movies

I was a coward. I went to the war. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#war #cowardice

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. ↗

— John Irving

#cowardice #cowardice

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#music #thawing #warmth #winter #music

I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#appealing #awareness #drum #instruments #interest

Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #voice-of-the-nations #religion