#kin

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#day #different #different ways #even #large

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #act #apart #does #everyone

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard. ↗

— Midge Ure

#down #expression #fingers #get #give

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ever #ideal #journey #kind #learning

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#doing #doom #double #faces #i

Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews? ↗

— Pontius Pilate

#jews #king #release #unto #will

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#except #family #find #human #human family

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it. ↗

— Leon Uris

#good #making #part #people #trying

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#criterion #doing #inner #inner peace #judge