#col

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#color #families #hungry #interrogators #many

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years. ↗

— Didi Conn

#college #high #high school #i #school

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long. ↗

— Bruce Conner

#college #going #had #horror #i

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#become #colleges #doomsday #expert #lab

Duty is not collective; it is personal. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#duty #personal

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time. ↗

— Aileen Wuornos

#another #because #cold #hated #humans

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#funny #language #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #funny