#chap

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #chapter #closing #competition #i

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#history #japan #new #opened

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#basically #chapter #come #end #lot

9 years earlier “Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.” Isaiah 13:9 ↗

— Phillip W. Simpson

#anger

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza ↗

— Frank Herbert

#anger

Juliette!" His voice is tighter, higher, laced with anger and terror and denial and betrayal. Realization is a new piece in his puzzled mind. "He can touch you?" "Goddamit, Juliette, answer me! Warner is writhing on the floor, unhinged in a way I never thought possible. He looks wild, his eyes disbelieving, horrified. "Has he touched you? ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#anger

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. ↗

— Alan Moore

#murder #whitechapel #art

Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna: "It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition. ↗

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

#attitude

Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty