#cap

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. ↗

— Karl Barth

#certainly #change #escape #eternal #eternal love

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bring #captain #fail #failed #false

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea. ↗

— Caprice Crane

#heaven-albright #stupid-and-contagious #love

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#evening #his #man #posting #prayer

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#also #between #capital #double #each

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. ↗

— Shania Twain

#great #high #music #natural

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. ↗

— Les Baxter

#anything #capitol #complete #complete freedom #contract

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#access #capacity #confining #democratic #democratic system