#ed

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#did #frustrated #his way #some #way

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#been #body talks #clinical #constant #crimes

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#extraordinary #false #hear #leading #learned

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#been #disappointed #done #i #justice

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#death-of-a-loved-one #me #self #death

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. ↗

— George Weah

#brown #chicken #christmas #could #died

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#forward #freedom #justice #never #our

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#malfoy #death

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#expectation #letters #packaged

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#music #redemption #sin #death