#oar

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#torture #waterboarding #hypocrisy

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#faith #giving #hoarding #money #sharing

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then? ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#economic-catastrophe #faith #fiscal-cliff #gunpoint #hoarding

When she brought Mira up, Eve gave Roarke another glance. "Don't talk to him," she warned. "He can get bitchy when he's in this deep. I don't know if we have any of that tea stuff." "I had it stocked, and I don't get bitchy. Bloody, buggering HELL." Eve just rolled her eyes and got the tea. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#humor #roarke #death

I’m at the top of my game. And that game is Monopoly. I’m standing on the board right now.
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— Jarod Kintz

#game #humor #monopoly #pinnacle #humor

I make believe like asexuals make love—alone, with cardboard tubes.
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— Jarod Kintz

#asexual #cardboard-tubes #imagination #love #make-believe

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. ↗

— Criss Jami

#achievement #attraction #care #conquer #dignity

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido. ↗

— José de Almada Negreiros

#hoarding #life #livrarias #livros #reading

Trying to resist my love is like trying to hold back a tsunami with a surfboard. My advice is to take up boogie boarding. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#boogie-boarding #love #surf #surfboard #tsunami

Jace and I had been like that, two towers, soaring through the sky side by side, looking and feeling indestructible while we were together. ↗

— Natalie Valdes

#love #natalie-valdes #pinky-promise #soar #together