#cult

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#christianity #difficult #found #tried #wanting

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#ancient #arts #crete #discovery #europe

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#mastered #opportunities #won

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#body #cultivation #mind #necessary

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#esteem #highly #man #wish #would

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#culture #europe #european #european union #geography

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#cultural #dominates #ground #ground zero #groups

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion