#urns

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. ↗

— William Morris

#another #battle #comes #defeat #fight

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#couch #everyone #family #five #grew

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. ↗

— Will Oldham

#fierce #had #i #i can #kid

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#hot #i #learned #like #lot

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#god #how #i #into #marvel

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#back #either #happens #head-on #him

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#after #chance #continue #death #delighted

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bad fortune #bows #down #earth #faces

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved