#lor

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#ego #glory #men

One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul's first instinct was to laugh him off as a simpleminded fool. But the legend hadn't been conjured from thin air. When Paul tried to assure him that white men didn't eat black men, the man confronted him with a direct challenge: explain why they bought and sold Africans as if they were cattle, not human beings. "Why do you come from nobody knows where, and carry off our men, and women, and children?" the man asked Paul. "Do you not fatten them in your far country and eat them? ↗

— Monte Reel

#exploration #history #slavery #men

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#gloria-steinem #life #art

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#money

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#comics #exploration #humanity #war #money

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#music #taylor-swift #music

and she laughed and she cried and she tried to taunt him ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#money

It comes in pints? ↗

— Peter Jackson

#drinking #humour #inn-of-the-prancing-pony #lord-of-the-rings-movie #movie-quote

One does not simply walk into Mordor ↗

— Peter Jackson

#movies

Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I’m watching a movie, leave me alone? ↗

— Cora Carmack

#cora-carmack #garrick-taylor #losing-it #movies