#age

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? ↗

— Michel Foucault

#nature #norms #age

God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement. ↗

— John Ortberg

#holy-spirit

Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system. ↗

— Daniel Keidl

#matron #sun #telescope #home

What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#cupcake #romance #body-image

I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler. ↗

— Ally Carter

#espionage #humor #humor

Are you in charge here?" the man asks. "No, but I'm full of ideas! ↗

— Dr. Who

#dr-who #funny #funny-and-random #ideas #management

Wife trumps all. ↗

— Natasha Anders

#marriage #romance #the-unwanted-wife #love

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#civilized #general #having #know #men

Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#heaven #hell #humor #sydney-sage #the-indigo-spell

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#humor #tragedy #humor