#ria

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers) ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#age

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. ↗

— John Yoo

#benefits #cannot #convention #cooperating #example

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#comedy #darker #drawn #get #i

I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown. ↗

— Diet Eman

#darkness #hysteria #mind-power #paralysis #psychology

I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859 ↗

— Deborah Heiligman

#way-to-be #faith

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#edgy #i #i am #kinda #lot

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation. ↗

— George E. Brown, Jr.

#being #biological #biology #breakthroughs #chemistry

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#last #marriage #seriously #take #thing

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#classified #classify #decisions #documents #doubled