#kindlehighlight

on. I’m getting cold.’ Clutching the pluckers, I call her. ‘Right, ↗

— Matt Rudd

#marriage

be as good as our first honeymoon?’ Friday 7 October A ↗

— Matt Rudd

#marriage

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#kindlehighlight #wisdom #intelligence

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order, ↗

— William J. Bennett

#art

His face and arms are so artfully disguised as to be invisible. I kneel beside him. “I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.” Peeta smiles. “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#art

The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity. ↗

— Susan Scott

#business

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#courage

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dating

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#death

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it "thus far, and no farther! ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death