#anger

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. ↗

— Brad Thor

#above #angered #any #anything #bothered

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#boring #create #dangerous #everybody #likes

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#brush #dangerous #down #fires #going

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#dangerous #delusions #most #only #own

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. ↗

— Mae West

#cultivate #curves #dangerous #may #won

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#faiths #general #i #islam #mean

Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism? ↗

— Charles Clover

#chefs #dining #endangered-species #fishing #sushi

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#change #freedom #friend #holy #hospitality

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#chain #choice #course #decision #domino

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#anger #being #brigade #even #fought