#er

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#like #other #plus #soccer #social

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#i #just #like #see #up

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#beyond #cease #daily #day #deity

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#deny #experience #never #own #peace

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival." "So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass. ↗

— Iain Banks

#changer #death #dorolow #mess-room #religion

The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous) shelter hundreds of small animals and birds. The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle. When I think of my own death, or the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#death

You never know what you find once you really get going. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#get #going #know #never #once

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it. ↗

— Zac Hanson

#ever #had #much #nice #radio

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#pupils #taught #teacher #you #your

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form. ↗

— Plutarch

#experience