#al

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#catch #deity #designed #dog #kind

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#becomes #believe #care #come #curses

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#decay #life #pickle #preserving #spiritual

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that! ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#girlfriends #got #had #i #mean

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself. ↗

— David Horowitz

#canary #eventually #happen #happens #israel

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ↗