#all

And when books are spread abroad... ↗

— Quran

#inspirational #quranic #inspirational

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i love #ideas #jokes #love #short

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18. ↗

— Edward Furlong

#brother #going #house #i #little

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#declarations-of-love #foibles #future #harry-burns #in-love

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#horrific #images #initially #september #solidarity

Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out. It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger. Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#falling-in-love #love #life

Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice. ↗

— Os Guinness

#life

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. ↗

— George Balanchine

#better #equal #first #god #made

Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#in-death #peabody #suspense #death

A baseball manager is a necessary evil. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#evil #manager #necessary #necessary evil