#rift

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#clearing #clouds #crest #enormous #had

Знаеш вече как да се смееш на смъртта, Арута - каза Амос. - Никога повече няма да си същият. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#aruta #bulgaria #bulgarian #death #feist

To know of the existence of evil, true evil that corrupted the world, had forever altered her heart and mind. If she had chosen a different path, she wouldn't have slept another night. Her head would have been restless as she thought only of the horrors that might be creeping outside her door, waiting to rend her flesh. She would not live a life as the hunted; she would be the hunter. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#rift #young-adult #life

Die gesamte den Sinnen wahrnehmbare Welt ist gewissermaßen ein von Gottes Finger geschriebenes Buch, d. h. sie ist geschaffen durch göttliche Kraft, und die einzelnen Geschöpfe sind gewissermaßen Schriftzeichen, nicht nach menschlichem Belieben erfundene, sondern durch göttlichen Entscheid festgelegte, um die Weisheit Gottes im Bereich der unsichtbaren Dinge zu offenbaren. ↗

— Hugo v. St. Viktor

#buch-der-natur #ding #gott #mittelalterliche-semiotik #schriftzeichen

He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself. ' I have to go to sleep' she'd scathe. Then she'd roll over, and so would he. They'd be lying there like two strangers who just happened to be sharing the same bed. It was in those moments she began to plot her escape. ↗

— Lucinda Rosenfeld

#drifting-apart #respect

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. ↗

— Aesop

#thrifty #today #tomorrow #wants

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#drifts #edge #grew #i #national

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. ↗

— Russell Banks

#artistic #become #began #boy #drifted

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#because #being #careful #family #i

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#association #besetting #cause #collaborate #could