#sin

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#sin

I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#sin

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #sin

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands. ↗

— Daniel H. Wilson

#robot #survive #uprising #rebellion

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf. ↗

— Jeremy Clarkson

#advertising

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗

— Charles-Edward A. Winslow

#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#reading #blessings

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. ↗

— Rumi

#blessings

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#day #exercise #morning-walk #blessings

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. ↗