#cram

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#appreciate #celibate #i #might #sacrament

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#crammed #each #keep #less #lot

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#amazing #anyone #away #ball #game

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#all day #been #being #day #distinction

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#blister #brow #confound #cramp #galling

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#cramp #least #most #those #us

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. ↗

— Robert Browning

#cram #day #his #hold #hurry

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#bringing #fall #incarnation #life #man

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#absolution #administer #any #baptism #case

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#cramps #every #faculty #mind #parents