#eh

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed. ↗

— Mike Carey

#god #lucifer #yahweh #greed

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#honesty #truth #honesty

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt. ↗

— Mike Norton

#determination #fall #kindle #kindlehighlight #learn

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#connection

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#irony

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. ↗

— Anne Rice

#loneliness

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#faith #trust #faith

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. ↗

— Russell Brand

#amy-winehouse #blog #addiction