#ramp

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#give #i #infidels #look #mean

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. ↗

— Douglas Reed

#christian #like #looked #pagan #planted

Music, my rampart and my only one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#inspirational #music #rampart #freedom

The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness. My parents understood that fine crystal glass had to be cared for or may be shattered. But when it came to my brother, they didn’t seem to know or care that their course of their secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them. Their fraudulent marriage and our father’s denial of his other son was for Chris a murder of every day’s truth. He felt his whole life turned like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow. Suddenly running uphill. These revelations struck at the core of Chris’s sense of identity. They made his entire childhood seem like fiction. Chris never told them he knew and made me promise silence as well. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#chris-mccandless #into-the-wild #life

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. ↗

— Scott Adams

#case #common #cramp #draw #drawing

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#even #here #i #i can #illegal

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. ↗

— Karen Black

#better #cancer #career #comes #done

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. ↗

— Karen Black

#illiteracy #out #people #rampant

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. ↗

— Bob Etheridge

#corruption #highest #highest levels #leadership #levels