#hers

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#benches #facing #hall #held #perched

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#church #desire #did #duty #farther

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone. ↗

— Frank Dane

#denounce #everyone #preachers #sin

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#heavy metal #judas #judas priest #metal #others

You kissed me, and I opened my eyes and thought you were Death. You were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and I clung to the memory of you because it gave me comfort—the only bit of happiness I had ever had. You were my secret fantasy, my lover. My story… Lord Death is you, and the woman he stalks…is me.” “Why have you come,” he asked, “when you now know the truth?” “Because when you saved me, you forged a link between us. I don’t believe it will ever break.” “Bella,” he whispered, “I couldn’t allow you to take your life. Couldn’t bear the thought of existing in a world that you did not. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella #jude #seduction-and-scandal #beauty

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#like #myself #others #rate

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#excuses #finds #himself #man #never

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#evil #exerts #good #humblest #individual