#of

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #humanity #post-racial-america #race-and-racism-in-america #race-relations

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #george-r-r-martin #robb-stark #winter-is-coming #winterfell

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#commercialism #core #core-of-the-soul #core-values #devil

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ↗

— Stephen King

#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11). ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#bonus #christianity #corinthians #excess #giving

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#money #the-winter-of-our-discontent #change

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

— Stevie Nicks

#money

I call it guerilla TV. ↗

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

#collecting #killer-stuff-and-tons-of-money #reality-television #money

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#change