#owning

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#drowning #human #human civilization #lies #sea

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown. ↗

— Herman Melville

#men

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#absolutely #also #brothers #browning #care

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#began #bookstore #bookstores #close #dream

I think that glamour is about confidence and really owning the look. ↗

— Monique Lhuillier

#confidence #glamour #i #i think #look

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#less #owning #practice #stuff #trying

Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with “One” word. And that word consists of a beauty beyond any measure to man and one of the most beauty creations to grace the presents of man. That one word poem is…….. “YOU ↗

— Michael Jones

#love #michael-jones #poems #poetry #beauty

A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.
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— Jarod Kintz

#drown #drowning #economy #funny #humor

How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#belonging #bond #bonding #friendship #love