#willow

This is the ultimate bad-boy date, isn't it? Breaking into a different country." "Hey, it makes a change from hot-wiring cars together." "Been there, done that....Alex seriously, are you sure no one's going to shoot us? ↗

— L.A. Weatherly

#angel-fire #willow #change

If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE) ↗

— Rebecca Gober

#exposing-ele #hero #leadership #minnow #selfless

You made her mad when you're teasing me. ↗

— Jamie Magee

#insight-series #landen #love #willow #love

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#enchanting #haze #island #june #mysterious

Life: I’ll never understand it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#short-story #tony-takitani #life

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#agency #biggest #either #feet #five

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#bending #cracked #easily #most #notice

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bears #black #could #does #effective

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#better #calamities #character #elasticity #escapes