#way

[Non-flammable? Challenge accepted.] [Alan], I texted, [arson is bad.] [It's in the spirit of academic inquiry! It's SCIENCE!] ['Science' is not a legal defense.] [Damn them.] ↗

— KD Sarge

#louder-than-sirens #love-is-always-write #love

I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary #fray #jace #love #romance

I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#viewpoint #way-of-living #inspirational

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. ↗

— Roy Romer

#american #american dream #available #before #challenges

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#for-whom-the-bell-tolls #soldiers #war #men

Today the search for a new global order is under way. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#new #order #search #today #under

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. ↗

— Michael Collins

#been #before #ever #i #knew

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#ethics #humanism #indispensable #life #sociology

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#always #doing #early #early age #fraught

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#architect #essential #how #i #know