#eh

I pulled the dress out of the bag and held it in front of me. Ella sat up straighter and squinted her eyes, while Michael and Paco made the noises men make when a woman says, “What do you think?” Fathers probably teach those noises to their sons when they’re young—“Stand up when you’re introduced to a lady, use your napkin instead of your sleeve, and make admiring noises when a woman shows you anything, no matter what it is, and asks you what you think about it. Never, never, never say you have no opinion. ↗

— Blaize Clement

#men

The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure. ↗

— Max Hastings

#russia #stalingrad #war #wehrmacht #wwii

All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#men

Don’t be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that’s sustainable and profitable, whether it’s big or small, should be ↗

— Jason Fried

#business

Men as a class appear to be "at risk," maybe even at high risk. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#men

Hebben katholieken ook niet een veel prettiger leven? In ieder geval een stuk luchtiger en onbezorgder. Aflaatjes, biechten, weesgegroetjes en een mens kan zonder schuldgevoel weer verder zondigen. ↗

— Judy Lohman

#men

affliction or grief to the children of men. (Lamentations 3:32-33) God's ↗

— Gerald Bridges

#men

Men are good to a limit, God is good beyond limits. ↗

— Peter Teo

#men

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. ↗

— Ian Rankin

#money

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change. ↗

— David Gemmell

#humanity #change