#cross

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#conception #cross #having #lack #living

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.' ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#cross #dictators #gone #real #real thing

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#any #ask #back #crossed #mind

It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great example, but not a Redeemer. It was more important for Him to fulfill the purpose of the coming, to redeem man from sin while in the likeness of human flesh. Teachers change men by their lives; Our Blessed Lord would change men by His death. The poison of hate, sensuality, and envy which is in the hearts of men could not be healed simply by wise exhortations and social reforms. The wages of sin is death, and therefore it was to be by death that sin would be atoned for. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#redemption #salvation #sin #the-cross #change

I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#fiery-cross #outlander #courage

Are you sleeping with anyone?” The question was asked so casually it took a second to process what he’d said. I inhaled sharply. “Why is that any business of yours?” He looked at me and I saw what I’d seen the first time we’d met—tremendous power and steely control. Both of which had me taking an involuntary step back. Again. At least I didn’t fall this time; I was making progress. “Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what’s standing in my way, if anything. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#gideon-cross #business

I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on me was excruciatingly tight, but I didn't complain. We were on an insanely busy street, with endless cars rumbling past on one side and a crush of pedestrians on the other, but neither of us cared. He was shaking violently, as if he were sobbing uncontrollably, but he made no sound and shed no tears. The sky cried for him, the rain coming down hard and angry, steaming off the ground. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#erotica-romance #eva-tramell #gideon-cross #romance-novels #business

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#being #counts #cross #finish #finish line

You definitely have the voice for phone sex, but I've got to go. I have a date with my vibrator." "Oh, Eva." Cross spoke my name in a decadent purr. "You're determined to drive me to my knees, aren't you? What will it take to talk you into a threesome with B.O.B. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#eva-tramell #gideon-cross #dating