#mortal

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse. ↗

— John Osborne

#god #heroes #high #ideas #made

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#moments #moreover #mortal #mortal man #wise

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#could #escape #eyes #glory #i

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#best #immortality #nature #our #perhaps

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ↗

— Alphonse Allais

#increases #military #mortality #shown #statistics

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

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

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#assured #else #error #fails #immortality