#us

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#characteristics #detection #detectives #facts #obviousness

Badly done, Emma! ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen

Smartass Disciple: Master, I feel really really confused about the truth. Master of Stupidity: Only confused? Walk in my shoes then you tell me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #truth #walk #life

This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors. ↗

— Nancy Holder

#life

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#husbands #marriage #life

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#food #goes #households #i #purists

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here? ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #christianity #god #jesus #religion

No one is perfect. Everyone has skeletons in their closet, and umm... I believe in letting those skeletons out, the truth will set you free. ↗

— Jayy Von Monroe

#life #musician #inspirational

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#inspirational #trusting-god #inspirational

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#klaus #problem-solving #reading #life