#rna

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#ark #arose #before #david #dependence

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#dissension #dock #gamble #homicide #international

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#called #had #i #journalist #rather

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence now. It had tasted something, rich food on which it had long been thinly rationed. Shadowy things were trooping up, called by that scent of blood, like flies that smell carrion. They were not strangers to the old house; they had been ill-fed and at a distance, now they were hungry and avid and near. ↗

— Evangeline Walton

#ghost #horro #supernatural #food

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#giving #giving up #i #little #majors

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections. ↗

— George Whitefield

#believe #believed #cannot #carnal #commanded

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#change #consternation #democracy #dominated #europe

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more. ↗

— Ron Wood

#i #journalists #like #me #more

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#afghanistan #doing #festival #film #film festival