#bet

You’re going to castrate them if they give me a sideways glance?” He looked at the ground. “I’m not bringing you to the safest place and you’re beautiful, so I needed to warn them.” “I’m beautiful?” I repeated trying not to smile. “Don’t let it go to your head, darling.” He said holding his hand out for me. “You’re not too bad yourself.” “I know. I saw the way you stared at me when I took my shirt off.” Hunter said. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#in-between-seasons #post-apocalyptic #ya-dystopian #ya-romance #beauty

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#childish #define #deny #ever #god

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#cultural #holding #institution #man #marriage

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. ↗

— Arthur Calwell

#defeated #lies #principle #than #win

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. ↗

— Albert Camus

#being forgotten #between #choose #forgotten #friend

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#altogether #any #better #does #end

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. ↗

— Faye Wattleton

#better #better world #comes #commitment #satisfaction

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. ↗

— James Chanos

#between #big #big difference #difference #falls

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#better #difficult #easy #governing #government