#will

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us. ↗

— Origen

#cry #even #god #great #hear

In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first foray into consuming smut. It was because of Burroughs that I knew about the particular musk that blooms when a rectum is penetrated, and that death-by-hanging produces spontaneous trouser tents. The first Burroughs I read was Naked Lunch, but I buried myself in a few of his stories, and thus the arc of my recollection is just as non-linear as his narrative. ↗

— Peter Dubé

#coming-of-age #erotica #homosexuality #literature #queer

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. ↗

— George Osborne

#government #government spending #grip #growth #spending

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days. ↗

— Cat Osterman

#avenues #comes #days #embracing #i

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own. ↗

— James Otis

#barter #care #clear #day #every

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration. ↗

— Butch Otter

#accountability #administration #basis #been #both

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#any #defined #hits #may #nose

Biology always beats will power. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#beats #biology #power #will

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#civil war #continue #country #dominated #forces

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.' ↗

— Jimmy Page

#every #guess #heaven #hold #i