#reacher

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

(Hadley and Mary in the carriage) “Might I repeat how utterly charming you look?” “You are very kind,” she replied, down casting her eyes as a flash of heat invaded her cheeks. “But even if I were dressed in the finest of gowns, I could never be a lady of fashion.” “Never let that disturb you, my pet.” He fingered a mass of curls that had settled over her shoulder just above the expanse of her modestly covered bosom. “I find fashion and beauty are rarely synonymous.” When he caressed a stray lock between thumb and fore!nger and raised it to his lips, Mary felt the dizzying sensation from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes. ↗

— Victoria Vane

#victoria-vane #beauty

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#eat #i #learned #like #one thing

Horses are far worse than men for treachery... ↗

— James Clavell

#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

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#always #because #i #kid #preacher

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#equal #extract #indulge #live #money

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#american cinema #become #cesspool #change #cinema

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. ↗

— Andrew Young

#even #learn #living #make #nonsense

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#atheism #barack-obama #justice #martin-luther-king-jr #morality