#lest

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #black #called #charles #coolest

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. ↗

— Dean Inge

#candle #ever #fear #i #lighted

An honest God is the noblest work of man. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#honest #man #noblest #work

I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children's loss. It was eloquent and grand. So moving and charged with solidarity...On September eleventh, I faced the last moments of your father's life. I saw him in every person who tried to jump and every body they pulled from the rubble. And I saw myself as I was never allowed to be, consoled, understood, and loved. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#americans #palestinians #september- #love

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers ↗

— Anne Rice

#vampire #beauty

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ↗

— Aristotle

#his #justice #law #man #noblest

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#cost #dollars #find #just #making

The simplest things are often the truest. ↗

— Richard Bach

#often #simplest #simplest things #things #truest

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#goodness #most #piety #solid #vice

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations. ↗

— Ehud Barak

#eventually #i #join #organizations #palestinian