#tempo

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance. ↗

— Benny Hinn

#body #eternal #god #heals #importance

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#color #columbus #contemporary #dimensions #especially

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart. ↗

— Melissa Brown

#romance #contemporary-romance

Kissing Kate is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. And as much as I want to think I’m the good guy, as much as I’ve proclaimed that sleeping with an attached girl isn’t my style, I’m not walking away. I can’t. I have her now. She’s mine. And I’m not going anywhere. ↗

— Melissa Brown

#romance #contemporary-romance

To her surprise, Lucky tilted his head and looked her in the eye, appearing oddly…crestfallen, she thought. “Don’t be nervous,” he said. “I hate making you nervous. ↗

— Toni Blake

#romance #contemporary-romance

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. ↗

— Ted Allen

#contemporary #fun #house #i #like

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long

Hush, little students, we'll say the word, Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird won't sing, Mama's gonna write down everything. And so that book won't look the same, Mama's gonna add a brand-new name. ↗

— Daisy Whitney

#ya-contemporary-fiction #contemporary

Không biết, tôi đã đọc ở đâu, một í kiến về thời gian, như thế này: hiện tại được coi, như biên giới của hai KHÔNG. Cái KHÔNG thứ nhất là dĩ vãng, vốn đã có, bây giờ không có nữa. Cái KHÔNG thứ hai là tương lai, bây giờ chưa có, vì vậy bây giờ cũng không. Hiện tại chính là khoảng sột soạt giữa hai bờ vực ấy, giữa hai cái KHÔNG ấy. Cho nên hiện tại cũng không là gì cả. ↗

— Trần Dần

#contemporary