#rank

...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#l-frank-baum #tin-man #inspirational

With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#mary-shelley #life

I am. I am afraid. I'm afraid of being alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job the rest of my life but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#life

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hazel #heroes #jackson #neptune #olympians

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#drank #drink #friends #funny #funny thing

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#cranking #death #i #like #million

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids. ↗

— Robert Lansing

#guy #his #i #kids #neighborhood

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated. ↗

— Paul LePage

#crime #frankly #holocaust #horrific #humanity

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#along #coldplay #cream #guilty #ice