#ace

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#movie #movies

Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places. ↗

— Toba Beta

#places #visit #men

When Trace simply held her hands out to her sides and looked at her, Priss asked, "Are we going to have sex now?" His mouth twitched, and his gaze warmed, but he sounded dead serious when he said, "Yeah, I think we are. ↗

— Lori Foster

#trace #men

I love London. I love everything about it. I love its palaces and its museums and its galleries, sure. But also, I love its filth, and damp, and stink. Okay, well, I don’t mean love, exactly. But I don’t mind it. Not any more. Not now I’m used to it. You don’t mind anything once you’re used to it. Not the graffiti you find on your door the week after you painted over it, or the chicken bones and cider cans you have to move before you can sit down for your damp and muddy picnic. Not the everchanging fast food joints – AbraKebabra to Pizza the Action to Really Fried Chicken – and all on a high street that despite its three new names a week never seems to look any different. Its tawdriness can be comforting, its wilfulness inspiring. It’s the London I see every day. I mean, tourists: they see the Dorchester. They see Harrods, and they see men in bearskins and Carnaby Street. They very rarely see the Happy Shopper on the Mile End Road, or a drab Peckham disco. They head for Buckingham Palace, and see waving above it the red, white and blue, while the rest of us order dansak from the Tandoori Palace, and see Simply Red, White Lightning, and Duncan from Blue. But we should be proud of that, too. Or, at least, get used to it. ↗

— Danny Wallace

#danny-wallace #london #food

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#war #men

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#peace #war #men

England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on… the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men… who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#race #secret-society #spirituality #men

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#complacent #evil #greed #politics #men

It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#men #menace #men

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#peace #teaching #writing-craft #art