#if

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#deals #experience #feeling #full #give

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#around #blood #come #desert #distrust

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#food

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life. ↗

— John Forsythe

#dollar #i #life #my life #never

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#food #happiness #life #reading #food

Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult. ↗

— Ron Kind

#dangerous #difficult #iraq #mission #more

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#chicago #fifteen #fifteen minutes #know #like

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future. ↗

— Ron Kind

#chance #following #future #give #iraqi

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#anyone #baseball #difficult #difficult things #ever