#rip

Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#terminus #description

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#description #nature #nature

Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#school #stripper #teen #teen

Nature forgot to shade him off, I think... A little too boisterous--like the sea. A little too vehement--like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every colour scarlet. But I grant a sledge-hammering sort of merit in him! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#loudness #nature

Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy. ↗

— Anonymous

#joy #pain #scripture #scripture

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes. ↗

— Dawn Jayne

#religion #scripture #tourettes #religion

You - it's your nature - you are an incorrigible madcap! You bewitch a poor wretch until he doesn't know his head from his heels - puts his feet into his hat and covers his scalp with his boots! You are a will-o'-the-wisp who lures a poor fellow on through woods, bogs and briars, until you land him in the quicksands! You whirl him around and around until he grows dizzy and delirious, and talks at random, and then you'd have him called out, you blood-thirsty little vixen! I tell you, Cousin Cap, if I were to take up all the quarrels your hoydenism might lead me into, I should have nothing else to do! ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#funny #humor #humour #nature

[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven. ↗

— Nancy Horan

#horizon #nature #love

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #religion #scorn #scripture #religion

On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, 'Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit aggression against him' (2:194). The New Testament says nothing about how to wage war. The Quran, by contrast, is filled with just-war precepts. Here war is allowed in self-defense (2:190; 22:39), but hell is the punishment for killing other Muslims (4:93), and the execution of prisoners of war is explicitly condemned (47:4). Whether in the abstract is is better to rely on a scripture that regulates war or a scripture that hopes war away is an open question, but no Muslim-majority country has yet dropped an atomic bomb in war. ↗

— Stephen R. Prothero

#ethics #islam #religion #scripture #war