#north

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship #kim-il-sung #north-korea #psychology #subordination

I ask Thee for a thoughtful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes; And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise. ↗

— Anonymous

#love #north-and-south #love

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being. ↗

— Tom Spanbauer

#self-knowledge #unorthodoxy #γνῶθι-σεαυτόν #love

No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#ironmen #northmen #men

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#ball #fifth #first #hitting #i

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #even #global #global warming #know

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#before #bombed #bombing #cities #civil

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#broken #changed #country #covered #direction