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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.
Annie Besant (The Atheistic Platform: Twelve Lectures by Chales Bradlaugh, Annie Besant, Alice Bradlaugh, A. B. Moss, C. C. Cattell, G. Standring, E. Aveling, D.Sc.)
Did you make a mistake today? Did you do or say something that you’re ashamed of? Congratulations. You are officially human. Love yourself, especially when you’re aching with shame or regret. Make your amends, learn the lesson, and love your wondrous human self.
Margaret B. Moss
she was touched that he’d gone the extra mile,
B. Williams (No Bones About It: Moss and Wolf Case Files: 1)
He’s coming,” Wolf said softly, his voice barely a whisper. “Kiss me.
B. Williams (No Bones About It: Moss and Wolf Case Files: 1)
Among locals, Avenues A, B, C, and D stood for Adventurous, Brave, Crazy, and Dead. (In 2016, writer George Pendle told the Times they now stand for "Affluent, Bourgeois, Comfortable, and Decent.
Jeremiah Moss (Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul)
Michael Ward knows. Ward loves railroads. His loves his own railroad company, CSX, which traces its origins to 1827 when the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was formed as the nation’s first common carrier. He traces his own origins at CSX back thirty-seven years, when he took an analyst job as a newly minted Harvard Business School M.B.A., rising to become chairman, president, and CEO in 2003. And he loves the whole American freight rail industry. “Railroaders are like farmers,” Ward declares. “You heard about the farmer that won the lottery? They said to him, ‘Oh my gosh, you won the lottery; what are you going to do with all that money?’ He said, ‘I’m a farmer and I love farming, and I’m going to farm until every penny of it is gone.’ And I say railroaders are like that. When we make more money, we’re going to invest more back into the infrastructure, so we can strengthen the railroad and grow the business.” Ward may sound like a press release, but that’s exactly how he talks, and why he’s a major industry spokesman. He lavishes praise on industry performance: “While we’ve improved the profitability of the industry, we’ve also cut rates in half of what they were in 1980 for our customers, on an inflation-adjusted basis. We’re providing a more economical product to them, and it’s safer and more reliable. Over the years, as an industry, our train accident rate is down 80 percent; our personal injury rate is down 85 percent; and we’re doing this with about one-third of the workforce we had in 1980.” He calls the industry “the envy of the world.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure)
Il ragazzo mosse le labbra e mormorò qualcosa che nessuno dei fedeli percepì, ma che rimbombò nella testa di Mauro con la forza di un tuono. Fammi tuo, padre.
Edoardo B. (Nel nome del Padre (Italian Edition))
It was good for me to be afflicted. (Psalm 119:71) It is a remarkable occurrence of nature that the most brilliant colors of plants are found on the highest mountains, in places that are the most exposed to the fiercest weather. The brightest lichens and mosses, as well as the most beautiful wildflowers, abound high upon the windswept, storm-ravaged peaks. One of the finest arrays of living color I have ever seen was just above the great Saint Bernard Hospice near the ten-thousand-foot summit of Mont Cenis in the French Alps. The entire face of one expansive rock was covered with a strikingly vivid yellow lichen, which shone in the sunshine like a golden wall protecting an enchanted castle. Amid the loneliness and barrenness of that high altitude and exposed to the fiercest winds of the sky, this lichen exhibited glorious color it has never displayed in the shelter of the valley. As I write these words, I have two specimens of the same type of lichen before me. One is from this Saint Bernard area, and the other is from the wall of a Scottish castle, which is surrounded by sycamore trees. The difference in their form and coloring is quite striking. The one grown amid the fierce storms of the mountain peak has a lovely yellow color of a primrose, a smooth texture, and a definite form and shape. But the one cultivated amid the warm air and the soft showers of the lowland valley has a dull, rusty color, a rough texture, and an indistinct and broken shape. Isn’t it the same with a Christian who is afflicted, storm-tossed, and without comfort? Until the storms and difficulties allowed by God’s providence beat upon a believer again and again, his character appears flawed and blurred. Yet the trials actually clear away the clouds and shadows, perfect the form of his character, and bestow brightness and blessing to his life. Amidst my list of blessings infinite Stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled; For all I bless You, most for the severe. Hugh Macmillan
Lettie B. Cowman (Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings)
Flomaton suddenly felt like ancient history. Blooming honeysuckle mingled with a stink from the belching paper mill you could taste in the back of your throat. I tripped on a pair of tree roots diving in and out of the sandy ground like barky sea serpents. Luckily, I didn’t fall or drop the bags. From where I stood, I could see the railroad tracks curving around the bend of pine trees on Muscogee. When I was a boy, Grandpa would take me here to watch trains carry cargo to the paper mill. I remembered him holding my hand as they rumbled by. As I got older, watching trains was no longer fun. My imagination craved make-believe, and the yard was a creative playground for Tyler and me. We used to lay tracks, build forts and secret outposts, and raise all kinds of holy hell with our own version of World War II as the backdrop. And this beautiful oak tree I’d climbed many times as a child. Spanish moss covered most of the branches now. Hattie once told me the gray draping mosses in these trees were memorials for lost and forgotten souls, as if all the nearby dead in unmarked graves had heaved themselves into the branches for the wind to remember. Hattie called them Graveyard Trees.
D.B. Patterson (Perdido River Bastard)
[...] Sul comodino, fra i medicinali, c’era il suo romanzo preferito, Piccolo mondo antico. «Ti devo parlare». «Ti stanchi, forse non è il caso…» «Lo decido io se è il caso. Sono io quella che se ne sta andando, e non voglio finire all’inferno. Ci sono cose di cui sono pentita, sì mio Signore che ascolti dall’alto dei cieli, sono sinceramente pentita, l’ho detto anche a don Bruno… Dicevo… Ci sono cose che devi sapere, finché non mi sarò confessata con te avrò sempre questo peso con me». «Ma io non sono un prete, non devi confessarmi proprio niente». «Sì invece, perché ti ho ingannato, ti ho fatto vivere nell’errore». Qualsiasi cosa stesse per dirmi, sentivo che era molto peggio dell’errore. «Non voglio sapere niente, ti perdono al buio». «Invece mi ascolterai, povero imbecille, ascolterai tutto». E ascoltai. Non mi aveva mai amato, mi aveva sposato solo per i miei soldi. Durante il nostro fidanzamento mi aveva tradito con cinque uomini; dopo le nozze non li aveva più contati. Aveva tenuto a precisare che pressoché tutti scopavano meglio di me, e che con me non ricordava orgasmo che non fosse simulato. Anselmo, il mio Anselmuccio, non era figlio mio ma del suo maestro di salsa e merengue, l’aitante Lucio. Matilde invece era figlia del commendator Ferrarini. Capivo Lucio, ma Ferrarini… Quando le chiesi perché rispose che proprio il fatto che fosse brutto e grasso le dava il gusto dello sfregio. Continuai ad ascoltare guardandole le spalle. Le mie promozioni, la mia nomina a sovrintendente non dipendevano dal mio merito: per solleticare la vanità di essere la moglie di un uomo importante era stata a letto con tutti quelli che avevano il potere di decidere. Anche la mia vittoria al torneo di scacchi di Neuchâtel non valeva nulla: la notte prima della finale aveva accettato di farsi sodomizzare dal campione russo perché facesse in modo di perdere: capisco adesso quella sciagurata spinta di pedone in b6… «Perché hai voluto parlare? Perché? Adesso la mia vita è rovinata…» «E non pensi alla mia, di vita? A quella eterna? Io voglio andare in paradiso, fra gli angeli… Il Signore lo sa, che dovevo dirti tutto, ora è contento della sua pecorella… È anche scritto, Egli si rallegra più di un malvagio pentito che di cento giusti… E rimetti a noi i nostri debiti… È cosa buona e giusta… Osanna nell’alto dei cieli… Accoglimi o Signore, è cosa giusta… Sì, vedo già la tua luce…» Più del dolore per quanto avevo saputo mi prostrava il disgusto per quella religione, la religione di Don Rodrigo morente e di Priebke, povero vecchiettino… Il mio eroe rimaneva Don Giovanni, quando dice di no al convitato di pietra, no che non mi pento… Presi dal comodino Piccolo mondo antico, lo sfogliai avanti e indietro. Sospirai. «Vedi cara, il fatto è che anch’io ti devo confessare un segreto». Mosse leggermente la spalla sinistra, come se stesse cercando di girarsi verso di me, ma si trattenne. «E il segreto è che io intrattengo certi rapporti con certi esseri spaventosi, esseri che tu non esiteresti a definire diabolici… Ma se oltre a Fogazzaro tu avessi letto anche Tolkien sapresti che esistono demoni molto più antichi del diavolo, demoni che vengono molto prima dell’umanità, prima di Dio e prima del nostro universo…» Si sentirono i primi colpi, lontanissimi. E già l’acqua nel bicchiere aveva incominciato a tremare. «Cosa sono questi colpi?» «Ne sta venendo uno per te, l’ho chiamato io». «Ma chi è?» «Un demone del mondo antico, come quello che trascina Gandalf nell’abisso». Ora i colpi erano boati, e facevano tremare le pareti. «Perché vedi, amore mio, il mondo antico non è piccolo. È grandissimo».
Michele Mari (Fantasmagonia)
After a few more voyeurs into the night she fell asleep, him wrapped around her, holding
B. Williams (No Bones About It: Moss and Wolf Case Files: 1)
Black magic wasn’t called black for nothing. It was the darkest, most evil kind of sorcery. Someone wouldn’t cast these kinds of spells without being willing to cause harm in exchange for power and to cause further harm with that power. Either they weren’t worried about their mortal soul or they simply didn’t possess one.
B. Williams (No Bones About It: Moss and Wolf Case Files: 1)
Terminus laid outside of their small circle, the city just large enough to have a skyline
B. Williams (No Bones About It: Moss and Wolf Case Files: 1)
She was either outside the forest or deep inside it, swallowed up by the forest and a part of it, the sounds of birds and insects and running water and the smell of moss and rotting trees and new shoots and mushrooms and of animals that have only just disappeared.
Vigdis Hjorth (A House in Norway (B Book 72))