#sins

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. ↗

— David Halberstam

#boring #cardinal #easiest #easiest thing #get

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild. ↗

— Jack Hanna

#their #wild #zoo

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#because #cousins #different #different world #ethnically

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#comfort #find #god #look #means

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins. ↗

— Jane Howard

#lot #people #rather #than #their

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. ↗

— James Joyce

#devised #english #ever #explains #ingenious

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#being #better #knowing #maxim #may

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#generation #i #really #sins #took

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#cerulean-sins #coffee #sugar #food