#lt

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them. ↗

— Jack Klugman

#around #being #blow #close #dealt

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy? ↗

— Robert Lanza

#breakthroughs #bush #change #his #how

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#disappearance #intelligence #language #narrative #beauty

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner. ↗

— Sharon Sant

#fantasy #science-fiction #young-adult #death

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain. ↗

— Saul Kripke

#pain #sensation

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. ↗

— Sylvia Kristel

#ashamed #box #box office #course #difficult

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#backgrounds #because #come #cultures #fans

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#loyalty #tradition #family

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#built #children #choice #choices #curse