#mut

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#also #avert #change #continue #destruction

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#also #democracy #destruction #elimination #freedom

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack

You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#eugene-wrayburn #our-mutual-friend #life

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #our-mutual-friend #love

It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#community #family #mutuality #submission #family

Love enables mutual trust among strangers. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love #mutual-trust #strangers #love

I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#hurt #love #pain #self-mutilation #love

Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut! ↗

— Russell Brand

#lewis-carroll #smutty #humor

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#respect #love