#now

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#happening #itself #know #needs #promote

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#begin #does #effectively #enough #know

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#each #first #first time #happen #happening

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#containing #face #invested #like #lover

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#exalts #future #go #heaven #like

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#calling #intimate #intimate knowledge #knowledge #pays

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#dealing #dreadful #eyes #few #few things

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. ↗

— Christian Bale

#characters #i #preferences

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#i #i think #important #knowing #more