#som

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#believed #bringing #classes #government #growth

Pressing my head to his heart, I listened hard, straining to hear any gurgle or murmur of life. Hearing nothing, I felt the shock settle into my mind, slowing it down and then turning it off. "Don't leave me, Noah. Please, don't go," I whispered into the darkness as the light spray of rain touched my face. If only I could turn back time. I would tell him yes. ↗

— Karen Ann Hopkins

#grief #losing-someone #love #regret #death

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#did #frustrated #his way #some #way

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#because #even #hand #i #inherently

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.' ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#film #i #like #sing #something

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#different #i #just #me #moore

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#case #check #clamour #guilty #himself

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#retire #simply #something

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#fond #i #into #sometimes #things