#reacher

A loyal American wife should never be without a gun in her purse, just in case her husband turns traitor. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loyalty #marriage #treachery #funny

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her. ↗

— Lee Child

#men

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#became #both #brother #farm #farmer

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #evangelists #extended #extended family #family

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#i #kid #minister #preacher

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#fire #hatred #only #others #out

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#drama #father #good #had #little

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#communication #creation #direct #emerson #ended

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#being there #did #i #i think #injured