#aw

I've been wanting to do that for a very long time," I growled Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill." I clenched his shirt and leaned him over him. "Me? I'm not the one who tortured Lissa for my own benefit. I'm not the one who turned my daughter Strigoi. And I'm sure as hell not the one who used compulsion to kidnap a fifteen-year-old girl! ↗

— Richelle Mead

#hathaway #rose #victor #torture

The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn’t going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they’ll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer.
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— Jarod Kintz

#beer #capitalism #commercials #communism #consumerism

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#honesty #self-awareness #meditation

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ↗

— Eric Berne

#between #compromise #games #intimacy #keeping

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#america #camps #catching #concentration #every

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#going #i #law #law school #school

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. ↗

— Bill Blass

#cigarette #cocktail #drawings #glamour #had

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. ↗

— John Bolton

#bureaucracy #different #different things #done #government

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ↗

— William Boetcker

#build #cannot #character #courage #independence

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ↗

— Hal Borland

#awesome #color #dancing #fire #flame