#we

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#chase #command #east #end #even

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#always #behind #chance #change #change things

Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#been #i #long #long time #supplements

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower. ↗

— Howard Bach

#follower #i

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#find #going #joining #jumping #kids

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. ↗

— George P. Baker

#entirely #given #great #however #independent

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#give-up #hurt #jealous #love #middle