#z

It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#zeppelin #world-war-ii

I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have ↗

— George Orwell

#world-war-ii #world-war-ii

That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne. ↗

— John Pearce

#paris #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

Dear Artie: “The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. “Roy ↗

— John Pearce

#paris #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practice

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away. ↗

— Willie Aames

#after #away #come #five #i

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ↗

— Felix Adler

#dark #great #hero #kindles #life

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda. ↗

— Abdallah II

#american #certain #country #envelope #our

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#chief #first #found #hand #heart