#ate

My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#materialism

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#complicated #deed #evil #good #labels

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#philip-pullman #the-golden-compass #materialism

Hate did not give way to heroism. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #hate #heroism #young-adult

In the desert, the only god is a well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#desert #desolation #faith #fountain #god

The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception, Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible. ↗

— Dan Barker

#religion #scripture #separation-of-church-and-state #education

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated. ↗

— Paul F. Davis

#feel #feelings #go #wisdom #tolerance

Yes, you are right! I am your leftover trash. I hope you know a bum got to eat too. I believe you were one when I met you. ↗

— Touaxia Vang

#hate #leftovers #relationship #breakups

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday? ↗

— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

#children #children-s-books #humor #humour #illustrated-books

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#character #first #first of all #follow #hopefully