#wither

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#conjugal #desires #disappeared #even #friendship

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#another #comedies #comedy #course #doing

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

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them. ↗

— Fred Savage

#claire #film #future #honored #i

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#gym #ring #survive #theme #those

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ↗

— James Joyce

#better #boldly #fade #full #glory

Tell freedom I said hello. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#freedom #lauren-destefano #wither #freedom

He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fever #wither #death

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#before #body #dancing #drop #i

Could you have possibly put more water between us? ↗

— Saundra Mitchell

#love #nathaniel-witherspoon #love