#comb

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#paranormal #paranormal-romance #romance #vampire #vishous

Spontaneous human combustion is for superstitious atheists. I believe in deliberate human combustion. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword. ↗

— Derek Landy

#combat #duel #dueling #humor #humorous

It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war. ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#war #death

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#combat #psychology #change

…to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?’ ‘To be free’, said Combeferre. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#hugo #les-miserables #love

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. ↗

— Martin Amis

#cannot #combine #movie #movie star #star

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#clothing #combine #i #major #studies

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. ↗

— John Bardeen

#combined #could #effective #individual #more