#ible

You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#goddess #land #macrame #palm-tree #rick-riordan

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. ↗

— Willie Aames

#bible #claim #get #getting #god

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#emotions #experiences #feels #horrible #lives

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#false #impossible #knows #make #port

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#experience #insubstantial #only #tangible #theories

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus. ↗

— Robert Barany

#flash #me #obviously #responsible #temperature

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#ancient #anyone #beautiful #beautiful places #buildings

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#believe #cabinet #context #contribute #could

When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires ↗

— Pablo

#bible #blood #jesus #life #religion

Micah 1:8 -- Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. ↗

— Anonymous

#lament #old-testament #religion #religion