#lend

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. ↗

— George Richards Minot

#awakening #been #blended #considered #courts

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#handsome #men #most #only #robert

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#lender #neither #nor

It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious." Elend paused." Um...I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense," Vin said." It's beneath us. Come on-the sun's already down. We need to get moving. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#elend #mistborn #the-hero-of-ages #vin #age

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#isabel-allende #anger

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#computer #i #program #really #simple

He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers, but she stood out, anyway. It didn’t matter that her wide blue eyes were narrowed or that her pretty mouth was twisted into a near snarl — she was blatantly beautiful. It was kind of sick the way Ed was preoccupied with beautiful girls these days. He felt a little sorry for her. (He was also preoccupied with finding ways of feeling sorry for people.) She was new and trying hard not to look it. She was confused and trying to look tough. It was endearing is what it was. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#blending-in #endearing #lockers #pity #school

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#chile #government #power #change

La vida es un ruido entre dos grandes silencios ↗

— Isabel Allende

#isabel-allende #life #death