#mason

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Dan Brown

#masons #men

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#elders #include #like #masonic #mysteries

He hesitated, looking at her. The old Ellie was gone. Replaced by a woman who was detached and cold. He didn’t know what to say, how to reach her. There was a wall around her, and he’d laid the foundation for her to build it. ↗

— Kathy Love

#mason #love

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. ↗

— Charles Taze Russell

#down #fine #found #friends #got

Boys,” said Amelia as she and Patrick stepped forward with the last gift, “Can you never give anyone anything useful?” At the same time Danny and Mason broke out into grins and said, “But those are useful.” Amelia shook her head, her blond curls cascading beautifully around her. ↗

— Micalea Smeltzer

#danny #mason #beauty

Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant ↗

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

#death #fiction #masonry #masons #nano-robotics

I don't know what she's trying to say, but I can feel her struggle to get it out. "I love Skittles. ↗

— Cheryl McIntyre

#mason #love

Jesus, Hope. You have ruined me. I love you so much. ↗

— Cheryl McIntyre

#love

My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road ↗

— Marek Edelman

#quoted-by-paul-mason #socialism #freedom

You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#funny #mary-balogh #mr-mason #funny