#longed

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#authorities #belonged #men #morocco #people

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#common #common cause #generation #i #i remember

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#came #hitler #i #party #power

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#every #felt #finally #first #first time

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#achieved #belonged #ceded #hawaii #here

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ↗

— Anatole France

#another #before #behind #changes #die

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#instance #nation #prolonged #warfare

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#belonged #felt #i #never #outsider