#cal

For a long time, I wanted to become a theologian. Now, however, behold, how through my efforts God is being glorified through astronomy. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#job #knowledge #minitry #science #theology

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #fiction #god #horror

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor #humor

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. ↗

— Gustave Le Bon

#propaganda-government #science

He’s going to kill everyone on this planet, reduce the human race to dust. There will be no one to stop him. You are the only one who can. - Aiden Deverill ↗

— Alexandra May

#apocalypse #elemental-the-first #halíka-dacomé #science-fiction-romance #science

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#life

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#practicality #proverbs #wise

If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart. ↗

— Penelope Williamson

#romance #historical

What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn’t want to have to break the law to serve them. ↗

— Jeff Sharlet

#bribery #government #legality #political-corruption #united-states

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us. ↗

— Donald Riggio

#historical-fiction #music #rock-and-roll #family