#ratio

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted. ↗

— Robert Reich

#democracy #first-amendment #government #politics #public-assembly

Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. ↗

— Jon Acuff

#christians #funny #inspirational #spiritual-growth #funny

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love

My life will be the best illustration of all my work. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#illustration #life #work #writing #writing-process

open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it" (Psalm 81:10b). ↗

— Anonymous

#inspirational

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) ↗

— Douglas Adams

#inspirational #humor

Good deeds have echoes. ↗

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

#spiritual #inspirational

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh ↗

— A.A. Milne

#inspirational #humor

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#inspirational #humor

Nothing but good times ahead. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#inspirational #humor