#um

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#human-behaviour #money #partners #psychology #relationship

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#crisis #genuinely #human #understand #understanding

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#any #because #being #fleeting #founded

In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,” the priest had said one day. Montalbano, never very studious, had been a mischievous pupil, always sitting in the last row. “So that must mean that if everyone in the family tells the truth, they save on the electric bill. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#family

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#been #columbia #done #see #tremendous

The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored!
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #beauty #death #food #fruit

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#beauty

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bless #brought #crown #desire #devils

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing