#elves

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#allies #america #battle #countries #domination

These players are prima donnas. They need to educate themselves so they don't make such stupid remarks. ↗

— Richard Williams

#educate #make #need #players #prima

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#endeavors #help #help people #humanitarian #most

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#deceive #get #i #i think #older

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. They are one of my favorite things in life, really at the tiptop of the list, easily my favorite inanimate things in existence, and ... I am just not cottoning on to this idea of making them ... not exist anymore. Making them cease to take up space in the world, in my life? No, please do not take away the physical reality of my books. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#book #books #reading #shelves #beauty

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves. ↗

— Derek Landy

#lying-to-ourselves #self-deception #telling-lies #death

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#away #balance #give #how #moments

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#fool #more #ourselves #should #teams

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#any #anything #ask #believe #creative

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#dare #job #out #people #themselves