#ace

Everyday in heat, rain or cold, I ran - alone in the woods - in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. I head Him whisper, 'You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give hope to others. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#free #freedom #hope #peace #rape

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#justice-without-mercy #loss-of-faith #retribution #revenge #the-big-peace

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#aerial #anybody #because #climbed #decided

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that. ↗

— Steve Moore

#avatar #beauty #beauty-is-not-skin-deep #face #flesh

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bridge #build #claim #common #common ground

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#challenge #faced #man #modern #modern man

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#answer #aspect #background #because #blocked

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. ↗

— John Tyler

#apt #aptly #compared #coquette #elude