#host

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#comfort #enters #guest #host #house

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #before #cart #comprehension #doctrines

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#either #enterprises #fortune #given #great

The stratosphere is a hostile place. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#place #stratosphere

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#host #hostess #lady #macbeth #mankind

People are either born hosts or born guests. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#either #guests #hosts #people

There's hostility to lying, and there should be. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#lying #should

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities. ↗

— John Bolton

#create #hostilities #i #looking #running

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. ↗

— David Bowie

#demons #ghosts #hand #i #inside

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge