#offer

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#desperation #galt-niederhoffer #life #light #love

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous. ↗

— Chris Rock

#famous #i #offer #only #parts

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#being #dangerous #god #love #loyalty

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#golden #highest #honor #movement #offer

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#ambition #australians #become #describe #election

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#clue #complexion #fact #his #nature

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer. ↗

— Susan Anton

#beautiful #because #encouraged #may #more

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#creates #establishes #itself #man #offers

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. ↗

— William Bartram

#almighty #blessings #creator #favours #gratitude