“Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.” FeelsMayPoorFateSubjectsDyingGratitudeGuiltyPrimariesImpulseHardshipBlessSensationsLoved OnesDarlingEmbarrassmentGod BlessConsoleUnspeakableVisitation Book:East Side Story: A Novel Source: East Side Story: A Novel
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.” WellsHelpingPoliticalFateEconomicSubjectsIncreaseDictatorDiminishReconcileServitudeEconomic Freedom Author:Aldous Huxley
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.” WellsHelpingPoliticalFateInfluenceEconomicSubjectsIncreaseRadioDictatorDiminishDaydreamingReconcileDopeServitudeEconomic FreedomConjunctions Author:Julian Huxley
“I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.” PeopleMeanActionLanguageCommunityUnitedClassFateBloodSubjectsCommittedConnectedCollectivesSocialistMy ThoughtsThoughts And Actions Author:Adolf Hitler
“I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.” ShowsFateSubjectsTvsDifficultyLondonPriestsMisfortunesTv Shows Author:Tom Hollander