#ann

What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#athena #percy-jackson #poseidon #brain

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#cannot #events #improve #make #our

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗

— Aeschylus

#end #every #friend #heart #in the end

Death is softer by far than tyranny. ↗

— Aeschylus

#far #softer #than #tyranny

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#cannot #i #making #making money #money

[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#family #glass-castle #jeannette-walls #family

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#had #i #i think #me #planned

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#american cities #assistance #call #cannot #cities

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#been #cannot #completely #critic #established

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#approve #approved #cannot #council #i