#ling

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#conflict #desire #fall #falling #fear

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#being #different #little #merely #modern

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#always #country #dying #killing #never

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#creative #force #rather #reason #than

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#both #even #feeling #gate #real

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comprehending #deepest #failures #fiction #fiction writer

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#committing #confront #crisis #diminished #economic

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#everyone #failed #feeling #feels #focus

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#broken #confused #cure #enough #feeling