#spit

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#does #even #exist #hospitals #long

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#hospital #writing #death

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#becomes #hospitality #loses #soul #very

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#being #born #chloe #home #hospital

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#best #boxing #down #everyone #floor

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#legend #remains #spite #victorious

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. ↗

— Robert Henri

#better #else #show #spite #stick

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard