#tens

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#adult #apparently #cherish #conflicting #constantly

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#always #intense #longing #more #something

Kittens can happen to anyone. ↗

— Paul Gallico

#anyone #happen #kittens

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#camps #concentration #countries #died #false

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ↗

— Andre Gide

#again #back #been #before #beginning

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#american public #borders #caucus #continues #focus

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real. ↗

— Paul Greengrass

#because #conditions #create #director #drama

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. ↗

— Alex Grey

#ask #bare #beings #call #celebrating

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#answer #anyone #appeals #dark #dream