#thing

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything. ↗

— Ahmed Ali

#freedom #helps #hope #islam #jobs

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#make #one thing #policy #religion #religious

Of course, I do everything for money. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#everything #i #i do #money

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#clever people #cleverness #nothing #people #recognize

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#everything #nothing #serviceable #sufficient

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#heart #humility #something #strangely #which

That kiss you gave me was the hottest kiss i've ever had. I pulled away because i was afraid i wouldn't be able to stop myself from ripping off your clothes. And that didn't seem like the right way to end a first date. I didn't want you to think that was all i was interested in." She stared at him. There was silence again, but this time she didn't worry about how long it went on. "Why didn't you tell me?" She said finally. "I tried to, but every time i saw you afterward you disappeared. I got the feeling you were avoiding me." "i didn't want things to be awkward." "Yeah, there was nothing awkward about you hiding behind a plant when i came into the dining hall at lunch on wednesday." "I wasn't hiding. I was, um, breathing. You know, oxygen. From the plant. Very oxygenated, that air is." "Of course. I should have thought of that." "It's a healthy thing. Not many people know about it. ↗

— Michele Jaffe

#dating #funny #dating

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death. ↗

— Elena Anaya

#accept #death #generation #living #now

Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fog #life #nabakov #perfect #real-things

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#good #motto #thing #want #you