#mortal

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph. ↗

— Rosanne Moreland

#photography-memory-immortality #beauty

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#basic #breathe #cherish #children #common

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#abolish #different #forms #hands #his

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#around #assumes #behave #believing #blind

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#few #honduras #lanka #led #like

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#everything #field #gone #immortality #light

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

#endure #human #immortality #infused #into

You realize mortality is everywhere. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#mortality #realize #you