#win

She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#spring #sunlight #winter #spring

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies. ↗

— Roman Payne

#champage #idea #ideas #power #roman-payne

I just want to kiss you." He slid his hand up her neck, cupping the side of her face. "Do you want to kiss me? ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told. ↗

— Homer

#storytelling #truth #wine #storytelling

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still. ↗

— Scott Turow

#growing-up #time #thriller

Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dead #dejan-stojanovic #letting-go #literature

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins. ↗

— Victoria Billings

#fine #only #togetherness #twins

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#actions #connect #cultivation #helps #know

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieves #between #careers #consistently #distance

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. ↗

— Bill Blass

#cigarette #cocktail #drawings #glamour #had