#fur

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why? ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#fury #love #order #organized #organized religion

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#evening #experiences #forward #further #history

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#comes #darfur #matters #might #more

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#actually #angry #darfur #doing #heard

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#consider #crisis #economic #force #further

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#develop #disappears #furnished #furniture #goal

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#animal #certain #conversation #ever #furniture

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

#altar #being #current #did #felt

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. ↗

— Charles V

#commonly #fortune #further #goes #intensely

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#assassinations #attended #dedication #discovered #each