#dl

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#how #joyfully #kindly #live #midst

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#before #criticism #doing #dread #east

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#age

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#before #being #christmas #endless #faster

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#god #godless #had #i #make

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#conduct #council #declarations #degree #disposition

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#geographically #middle #middle east #politically #syria

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#asset #damn #gave #incredibly #intents

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#genre #great #hear #help #i

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#character #comic #custard #custard pie #ends