#orc

Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders. ↗

— Andrew X. Pham

#motorcycles #saigon #traffic #vietnam #equality

Not all vampires are created equal, you know. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#hybrid-vampires #luc #vampires #vampiric-equality #vampiric-logic

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore. ↗

— James F. Amos

#changed #corps #force #gospel #marine

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#composure #contentment #education #education-system #freedom

Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#laws #life #experience

Ah, the Saved...what happens to them is best described as the opposite of a mirage. What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#force #sex #life

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#divorce #faithfulness #inspirational #love #marriage

What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe he is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throw away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still do what he says in his Word. ↗

— Wes Moore

#quotes #faith

We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good! ↗

— Marilynn Dawson

#christian-living #divorce #faith #faith-journey #faith-walk