#wit

No war. Fight with your pen. Give your battle-cry in ink, and mark your dreams down on a page ↗

— Susan Fletcher

#witch-light #dreams

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger. ↗

— Carrie Jones

#coping-with-death #death #fight #gone #grief

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ↗

— William Hull

#aid #arrested #artillery #been #british

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beneficial #consequences #evil #extremes #forget

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful. ↗

— André Breton

#witch #beauty

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

#impossible #make #me #picture #tell

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#being #career #cent #early #earn

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#chair #covered #doctor #done #face

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. ↗

— Jan Hus

#defended #did #god #i #neither

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#ago #asleep #been #church #churches