#ape

An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #malfoy #ron-weasley #snape #unbreakable-vow

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #nature

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. ↗

— Mark Twain

#read

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#appear #blessings #disappointments #figures #let us

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final. ↗

— William Maxwell Aitken

#final #go #i #last #late

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#been #getting #glorious #i #interested

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#get #noise #tape #very #you

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#america #few #great #just #newspapers