#ado

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story. ↗

— Gary Allan

#became #because #doing #everybody #i

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#another #capable #could #expense #friend

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #content #could #days #due

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#adore #came #career #i #i came

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#as far as #black #books #desired #except

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#belong #body #does #inn #morning

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#colorado #courses #held #i #jobs

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James Baldwin

#begins #being #conscious #educated #education

No, I can just read you. Finally. I can't believe how blind I was. I can't believe I never noticed. Victor's comment...he was right." She glanced off at the sunset, then turned her gaze back on me. A flash of anger, both in her feelings and her eyes, hit me. "Why didn't you tell me?" she cried. "Why didn't you tell me you loved Dimitri? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #shadow-kiss #vampire-academy #anger