#lows

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. ↗

— James Wolcott

#dark #door #down #drop #election

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#highs #hollywood #incredible #lows #need

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beings #birth #fellowship #human #human beings

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#deep #flower #give #lie #me

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friendship #good #lasting #manly #pleasures

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. ↗

— John Yoo

#action #al #allows #attacks #casualties

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. ↗

— Loretta Young

#contribution #despair #eventually #follows #i

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#classic #follows #formula #getting #i

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#come #difference #dream #fears #follows

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows