#hst

When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. ↗

— Victoria Lamb

#paranormal-romance #witches #witchstruck #dreams

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hst #reason

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ↗

— James Frey

#pain #suffering #withstand #suffering

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. ↗

— Martha Beck

#another #basically #genetic #looks #notwithstanding

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. ↗

— Eric Zorn

#common #idioms #notwithstanding #only #save

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian. ↗

— Christo

#art #because #book #describe #each

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#basically #broad #complete #conduct #history

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#no problem #problem #sustained #thinking #withstand

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

#appellation #before #entitled #friendship #growth

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

#few #few men #highest #men #virtue