#elves

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#achieving #most #notice #reassure #something

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities. ↗

— Julian Clary

#celebrities #hideous #making #ourselves #relentless

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. ↗

— Joel Coen

#get #i #into #let us #movie

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#brings #compassion #moment #ourselves #rise

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#edge #getting #into #just #kinda

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#business leaders #employers #initiative #leaders #need

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗