#set

I couldn't imagine living in a state that didn't reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed. ↗

— Avery Sawyer

#ocean #renewal #reset #imagination

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#equator #ocean #orgy #sea #sea-monsters

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#belongs #country #developing #era #iraq

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#big #budget #build #exists #happened

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#age #american #american dream #because #dream

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#furthermore #groups #neither #our #out

Sunset is the saddest light there is. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #passion #upset #life

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier. ↗

— Bette Midler

#different #living #life

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#purpose #settling #life