#am

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places. ↗

— Lactantius

#deem #discuss #divided #else #functions

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#flowering #magnificent #plant #weed

She repeated what her mother had told me, that she had been moved when she heard me playing as she passed the house. She had seen me on the street a few times, too, and begun to worship me. She actually used that word: worship. It made me turn bright red. I mean, to be 'worshiped' by such a beautiful little doll of a girl! I don't think it was an absolute lie, though. I was in my thirties already, of course, and I could never be as beautiful and bright as she was, and I had no special talent, but I must have had something that drew her to me, something that was missing in her, I would guess. Which must have been what got her interested in my to begin with. I believe that now, looking back. And I'm not boasting. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#norwegian-wood #beauty

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#became #ennobled #god #him #human

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#amazing #ellen #get #hard #her

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#another #being #deal #enabling #hope

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people. ↗

— Theo Rossi

#baseball #clubs #football #football team #fraternity

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#am #bike #car #i #i am

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#adrenaline #cars #given #i #me

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#championship #competitive #first #hard #need