#north

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #infidelity

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY. ↗

— Aaron Tveit

#grew #i #miles #new #new york

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#eric-northman #sookie-stackhouse #beauty

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#ice #lonely #north #north pole #pole

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. ↗

— Catfish Hunter

#couple #friends #gave #had #here

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#carolina #charlotte #concord #farming #grew

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#after #almost #centuries #christ #countries