#then

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#everyone #love #place #taught #then

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested. ↗

— David Steinberg

#beneficial #careers #going #got #help

Your greatest path of influence is love. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#kindness #love #presence #truth #love

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. ↗

— Louise Brown

#bought #decided #fiction #figured #formula

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#among #discover #forces #gods #heavens

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#finished #incomplete #love #love is #man

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#band #first #map #off #started

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#cut #down #kind #mount #nixon

Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall. "Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!" "Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll—I'll terminus you, buddy! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#coach-hedge #heroes-of-olympus #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #terminus