The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTo be man’s tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
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When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
TUTU DESMOND -
We were – one. I was closer to you than anyone – ever. So tightly bound. You breathed for me and I lived in you.
JEN HOLLY -
To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VOLTAIRE -
I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.
TYSON FURY -
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn’t it?
GEORGE MICHAEL -
As an actor you always feel like you’re swimming upstream.
BRADLEY WHITFORD -
He that is jealous is not in love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
BARBARA WALTERS -
Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
BRANCH RICKEY -
I think Superman’s journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he’s got his role as earth’s greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he’s going to find a way.
BRANDON ROUTH -
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
HENRIK IBSEN -
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
BEN AARONOVITCH