#cho

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#english #know #religion #schools #you

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#it-s-kind-of-a-funny-story #judgement #teenagers #truth #funny

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogma #doubt #experience #faith #greedily

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. ↗

— David Hockney

#art #art school #i #old #school

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#chosen #determine #elders #entitled #exercise

I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious. ↗

— Katie Hoff

#great #i #just #laborious #look

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#any #becomes #boarding #boarding school #certain

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #become #credits #decided #failing

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again. ↗

— Robert Walser

#melancholy #music #pain #death

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#ended #going #got #high #high school