#hum

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#difficulties #discourage #grow #human #human spirit

No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?” “Yes.” “No,” he said. “No, it isn’t.” Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.” “This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.” “Simon—” Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sarcasim #communication

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#gotten #human #human being #i #inspired

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#give #human #human experience #i #i think

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#cut #entirely #human #humanity #laws

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ↗

— John Clapham

#economic #human #human progress #progress #same

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#first #first of all #his #human #human nature

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can. -Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#explosives #humour #mercenaries #sarcasm #money

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#certainly #competitive #drive #expecting #face

When I was in the second grade, I used to think love was the feeling a man gets while riding a motorcycle and having a woman embrace him tightly from behind. Maybe I’m cynical now, but I’m starting to think love is a unicycle with a flat tire. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age