#wither

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ↗

— Chanakya

#causes #destroy #does #family #forest

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#boring #brittany #going #i #i think

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#case #chance #either #good #good chance

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love #wither #death

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ↗

— Graham Greene

#comes #curiosity #morality #sad #sense

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#bill #curtis #informed #me #people

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#contemplation #general #just #monks #our

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #book #books #card #cash

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#endures #fast #grows #one thing #rapidly