#wither

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#remove #risk #vine #wither #you

I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are?" (p. 173) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#temporary #withering #beauty

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart. ↗

— Don Bluth

#her #just #like #reese #reese witherspoon

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#best #faculties #force #great #men

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#cries #cry #cut #dragging #drill

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

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

Could you have possibly put more water between us? ↗

— Saundra Mitchell

#love #nathaniel-witherspoon #love

Because you’re looking for something temporary. Something fun to play with.” I leaned even closer to deliver my punch line—the one that would deter even the horniest of men. “And I get attached.” I stood back up to my full height so I could take in his reaction. “Now doesn’t that just scare you shitless? ↗

— Laurelin Paige

#men