#rushing

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#contentment #days #excitement #flow #i

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#assailed #ears #government #government officials #headlong

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#aside #fast #future #hold #into

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#broadcast #cigarette #crushing #like #listening

Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder. "Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no... "Yeah." Crap. "Great. ↗

— Jolene Perry

#jameson-sky #lol #such-a-guy-thing #lol

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#emotional #poignant #equality

When there were no customers, he thought about geometry. He tried to perform the Pythagorean Theorem on the light fixture above him, given his estimate of its circumference, but he failed. He wanted to be good at math. But he just wasn’t. He wanted so badly for the math club to accept him, but to them he was a loser. During rush week they battered him blue with yard sticks; they tied him to a table naked and made him prove problems involving half circles before a huge swinging protractor cut him in half; they forced him to continually calculate the remaining volume of the kegs he had to drink, working it out by hand as he was held upside down. After he didn’t get in the club, they had started ganging up on him every day, sticking his head in the toilet and stealing his lunch money. Business was slow at the moment, and he thought about ending his life in the kitchen appliance aisle. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#geometry #math-club #rushing #business

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#because #brushing #cheek #feel #find

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#changes #flows #law #like #rights

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts. ↗

— Tom Brady

#brushing #day #feels #first #getting