#joseph

It’s complicated,” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender. “Talk slowly,” Jenna retorted derisively. “Okay, I deserved that,” I admitted. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #funny #humor #jenna-moretti

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them. ↗

— Josephine Humphreys

#life #people #protection #rich-in-love #world

There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#joseph-stalin #limericks #mass-murder #vladimir-lenin #men

Yeah. Almost as surprising as when you nailed me with your father's car." In the interest of avoiding confrontation, I felt compelled to explain. I didn't feel obliged to do it convincingly. "It was an accident. My foot slipped." "That was no accident. You jumped the goddamn curb and followed me down the sidewalk. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#stephanie-plum #money

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#disappoint #forgive #josephine #life #out-of-love

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#am #eliot #i #i am #influenced

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was. ↗

— James Brown

#brown #going #i #i think #ii

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#daytime #good #i #i think #joseph

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#come #destroy #did #faith #him