#had

Have you any idea how much my kingdom has swollen in this past century alone, how many subdivisions I've had to open?" I opened my mouth to respond, but Hades was on a roll now. More security ghouls," he moaned. "Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!" Charon wants a pay raise," I blurted, just remembering the fact. As soon as I said it, I wished I could sew up my mouth. Don't get me started on Charon!" Hades yelled. "He's been impossible ever since he discovered Italian suits! Problems everywhere, and I've got to handle all of them personally. The commute time alone from the palace to the gates is enough to drive me insane! And the dead just keep arriving. No, godling. I need no help getting subjects! I did not ask for this war. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hades #percy-jackson #security

The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#patience #qur-an #islam

There is strong shadow where there is much light. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enlightenment #shadow #enlightenment

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#bowels #city #had #hadn #just

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#had #i #look #lover #music

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. ↗

— Bill Blass

#cigarette #cocktail #drawings #glamour #had

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances. ↗

— John Bolton

#against #being #certain #circumstances #defined

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#bell #came #door #down #forgotten

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#eyes #had #hanging #i #indiscriminately

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#capitol #city #dedicated #engines #had