#dam

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it! ↗

— Sam Ervin

#court #damn #damn thing #got #hasn

The public be damned. ↗

— William Henry Vanderbilt

#public

Suddenly Damask found herself staring down at the flowers through a dazzle of tears. The words sounded so innocent and so disarming - she remembered that she hadn't wanted to come through the beautiful woods at all; and there was no danger, nothing wrong except the wickedness of her own heart. She looked at Danny's big, brown, work-scarred hands gently gathering the flowers and her love for him was a physical pain. Oh, how she loved him; how she wished that he would ask her to marry him!" Norah Lofts ↗

— Norah Lofts

#flowers #love #pagan-gods #beauty

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#convince #damage #done #far #far less

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Jon Gries

#as far as #concerned #descended #eden #eve

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians. ↗

— Edward Hall

#been #buildings #company #damage #done

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#bit #both #eve #little #little bit

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#bank #being #call #civil #civil war

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody. ↗

— Abe Lemons

#damn #i #less #miss #referees