#wither

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#conjugal #desires #disappeared #even #friendship

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them. ↗

— Fred Savage

#claire #film #future #honored #i

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#boring #brittany #going #i #i think

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#consciousness #leaves #living #only #own

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#children #die #flowers #god #loan

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#insanity #madness #sever #the-chemical-garden-trilogy #vaughn

I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are?" (p. 173) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#temporary #withering #beauty