#stain

Just say, dakhilak.” Without hesitation, “Dakhilak.” He nodded. Her accent was getting no better. “Now, you can never take it back.” “Well, what does it mean? Thank you?” She should have asked sooner. He didn’t turn to meet the gaze he felt on him, his voice full of sand, his stomach sick. “It gives me charge of your life. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#historical-romance #life #oath #promise #life

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#challenge #development #equality #gender #goal

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#believed #certain #could #driven #hard

The key ingredient to progress, to getting ahead, is to leave a foundation behind. ↗

— Dov Seidman

#business

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. ↗

— Burton Richter

#devoted #director #down #energy #energy sources

You are a guest of nature - behave. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#earth #inspiration #respect #sustainable-living #inspirational

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#else #matters #nothing #nothing matters #silence

If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. ↗

— Jean Claude

#buy #consumers #ecology #expensive #more

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#blessings #infinite #leaning #sustaining #those

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. ↗

— Virginia Gildersleeve

#bite #chance #college #democratic #democratic society