#toi

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#daily #digest #fit #know #little

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#castro #even #go #nickel #put

The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected. ↗

— Gale Norton

#areas #care #costs #decide #developers

Mine is the horny hand of toil. ↗

— John Singer Sargent

#horny #mine #toil

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. ↗

— Patti Smith

#changed #children #citizen #cleaned #diapers

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. ↗

— Walter Smith

#disappear #down #gentlest #god #looking

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#certain #certain things #confident #content #directions

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#give #great #home #leaves #life

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #does #ease #greatly #life

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#down #get #job #keep #less