#lief

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#divorce #husband #marriage #problems #wife

People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#false-hope #reality #sense-of-security #truth #men

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#dinosaurs #dragons #impossible #wisdom #men

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#circular #gender #nature #tiger-lily #men

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

— Sheri S. Tepper

#history #lessons #prophecies #religion #truth

In Holland vergeleek men hoeren met paarden. ↗

— Arthur Japin

#liefde #paarden #men

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fashions #ideals #worldviews #zeitgeist #men

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. ↗

— William Golding

#impossibility #money #power #money

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#debt #story #money

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conditioning #cultural-differences #foresight #hindsight #motivational-quotes