#longs

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#forty #half #nearly #past #seventy

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? ↗

— Tom Baker

#funny #laugh #laughter #longs #make

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#around #ending #fruits #new #problems

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#because #been #best #bit #business

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer. ↗

— Howard Berman

#anytime #anywhere #far #iranians #longstanding

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#author #belong #belongs #betray #ceases

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#expect #fringe #investigative #job #mass