#ran

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#after #long #many #other #perseverance

...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so... ↗

— Marmaduke W. Pickthall

#kor-an #koran #qur-an #quran #religion

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#grant #hugh #main #man #number

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#because #belong #days #few #get

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#children #degree #frankly #goddamn #got

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#strange #strange world #way #world

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#i #joke #paranoid #paula #people