#esp

La segunda ley de la supervivencia afirma que no existe una segunda ley. O comes o te comen. Punto. ↗

— David Mitchell

#law #ley #spanish #spanish

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#animal #horse #msytical #respect #strength

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#copy #cry #crying #despair #fall

I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday. ↗

— Amber Garibay

#guilt-quote #holocaust #karma #meat #responsible

There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around. ↗

— H.M. Forester

#law-of-attraction #law-of-correspondence #karma

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray. ↗

— John le Carré

#espionage #love #love

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #reason #violence #love

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#joesph-conrad #terror #imagination

... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right. ↗

— Andrew Elfenbein

#oscar-wilde #respect

Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny #humor