#y

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. ↗

— Michelangelo

#deprived #evil #free #free will #given

He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ↗

— Jules Michelet

#how #knows #poor #who

I took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#beauty

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ↗

— Sarah Miles

#every #god #little #little bit #woman

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. ↗

— James Mill

#bad #cannot #good #how #known

It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years. ↗

— Bess Truman

#four #going #like #looks #put

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. ↗

— John Milius

#been #critics #darling #everybody #i

Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be only a departure and mechanics would become refined to a degree that would no longer require any crude embodiment. Lights, words, yes even thoughts would be sufficient. (1957) ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#magic #technology #experience

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, “I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry. ↗

— Sue Mallory

#equipping #leaders #leadership #ministry #mobilizing

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts. ↗

— David Millar

#did #first #first time #fronts #hard