#sore

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #knife #mutter #needs #over

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#care #functioning #health #health care #layer

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#advantages #also #bad #bad days #because

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#censored #idea #movie #no idea #original

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored. ↗

— Ryan Sheckler

#get #go #gonna #got #have fun

Na escola, a mediocridade vem regada à busca de novas teorias pedagógicas (normalmente com baixíssimo impacto ou possibilidade de verificação de suas premissas); na universidade, vem vestida de burocracia da produtividade e corporativismo de bando; na arte, nos discursos contemporâneos sobre a "destruição da forma". Modos distintos de "fazer nada" ocupando tempo e gerando institucionalização e papo-furado cheio de jargão técnico. ↗

— Luiz Felipe Pondé

#ensino #escola #mediocridade #professores #universidade

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards. ↗

— Shaun White

#burton #i #seven #sponsored

That’s you. Callie, you’re the only person that’s ever made me feel happy about anything. That night you saved me, you changed something in me—you made me want to live. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#jessica-sorensen #change

It was the way he communicated it, while still being the man’s man that he was, the alpha, who liked being in charge ↗

— Kailin Gow

#alpha-male #erotica-romance #kailin-gow #romance #sebastian-sorensen