#up

So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant."well...yes, but I'd never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on for me. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#liberty #money-issues #travises #ups #dating

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#embarked #equally #indeed #make #martial

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police. ↗

— Tony Greig

#grew #i #london #police #up

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#equality #growing-up #equality

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#capitalism #corporations #dam #economics #environmental-degradation

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#complacency #corruption #decline #misgovernment #political-philosophy

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#growing-up #innocence #life #loss-of-innocence #truths

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#waking-up #you #experience

Never argue with an idiot; he will bring you down to his level and win from experience. ↗

— Brad Slipiec

#stupidity #experience

You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#faith #negativity #never-give-up #strong-women #testimony