#reacher

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do. ↗

— Lee Child

#freedom

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

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

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do. ↗

— David Gemmell

#humanity #kings #leadership #treachery #leadership

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it. ↗

— Lee Child

#life

I'm standing under a sign that says, 'Budweiser is king of beers,' and everybody's got their beers here today," I told them. "But I'm here to talk about the King of Kings. I know I might look like a preacher, but I'm not. Here's how you can tell whether someone's a preacher or not: if he gets up and says some words and passes a hat for you to put money in, that's a preacher. This is free. This if free of charge, which proves I'm not a preacher. ↗

— Phil Robertson

#duck-dynasty #preacher #money

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. ↗

— Tori Amos

#being #church #corn #crab #father

I'd make a bad preacher. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#i #make #preacher

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#because #cowardly #dark #our #our people

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school. ↗