#alas

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. ↗

— Jane Grey

#felt #find #folk #good #i

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#am #friendless #hopeless #i #i am

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#alaska #get #isolated #lived #only

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#because #government #humans #nature #need

All my grandfather ever wanted to do was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and pray in a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifa my mother was born under an olive tree on a soil they say is no longer mine but I will cross their barriers, their check points their damn apartheid walls and return to my homeland I am an Arab woman of color and we come in all shades of anger ↗

— Rafeef Ziadah

#anger

I am an Arab woman of color Beware … Beware my anger ! ↗

— Rafeef Ziadah

#anger

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#anderbo-com #art #beauty #behavior #books

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspiration #survival #courage

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspirational #survival #courage

Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when missionaries ventured to Alaska and warned the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked: "How do we get there?"! ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#eskimos #hell #religion #satanic-bible #beauty