#aged

Don’t fall in love with me,” She whispered harshly, a sob catching in her throat. “I know you probably think I’m egotistical saying this, but I need your promise that you won’t do that. If you want to stay friends – or whatever the hell we’re heading towards, you have to promise me you won’t love me – not now, not ever.” - Stephanie Carovella, Damaged. ↗

— Nina D'Angelo

#dominic-delaney #love #romance #stephanie-carovella #love

Don’t make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#fight #humor #love #sarcasm #love

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered? ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#philosophy #philosophy-religion #prayers #tragedy #war

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. ↗

— Steven Herrick

#inside #outside #precise #quetly #tearing-yourself-to-shreds

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences. ↗

— David Gemmell

#dramatist-quotes #inspirational-quotes #tragedy #inspirational

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#encouraged #even #even now #future #made

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#keeping #middle-aged #only #senses #their

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#broadest #contribution #engaged #enrichment #human

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent. ↗

— Major Taylor

#best #book #discussing #done #experiences