#rve

No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #the-fayz #action

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#perversion #sex #authority

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . ↗

— Charles Dickens

#diseased #mind #perverse #perverted #reverse

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas. ↗

— Mark Millar

#civil-war #daredevil #iron-man #judas #marvel

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain. ↗

— Daniel Kofman

#antiwar-movement #axis-of-evil #despotism #foreign-policy #foreign-policy-of-the-us

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#deserve #feel #i #really

The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone. So if there is a message I have to give, it is that if I've found one overriding thing about my personal election, it's the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it's a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope.... ↗

— Harvey Milk

#lgbt #elections

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#progress #marketing

People don't always get what they deserve in this world. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#injustice #injustice