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“You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else’s.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

“34. Sexual contact between a boy and a girl is a progressive thing. In other words, the amount of touching and caressing and kissing that occurs in the early days tends to increase as they become more familiar and at ease with one another. Likewise, the amount of contact necessary to excite one another increases day by day, leading in many cases to an ultimate act of sin and its inevitable consequence. This progression must be consciously resisted by Christian young people who want to serve God and live by His standards. They can resist this trend by placing deliberate controls on the physical aspect of their relationship, right from the first date.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.â€�
“And who would want that?�
“I didn’t think I would,� he admits. “Until I became one.�
“When you…‘woke up� in Evan?�
He shakes his head and says simply, as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world, “When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn’t fully human until I saw myself in your eyes.�
And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it’s my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.
Somebody might say that I’m not the only one lying in the enemy’s arms.
I am humanity, but who is Evan Walker? Human and Other. Both and neither. By loving me, he belongs to no one.
He doesn’t see it that way.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Aren’t you coming with us?â€�
I feel his hand on my cheek. I know what this means and I slap his hand away.
“You’re coming with us, Evan,� I say.
“There’s something I have to do.�
“That’s right.� My hand flails for his in the dark. I find it and pull hard. “You have to come with us.�
“I’ll find you, Cassie. Don’t I always find you? I—�
“Don’t, Evan. You don’t know you’ll be able to find me.�
“Cassie.� I don’t like the way he says my name. His voice is too soft, too sad, too much like a good-bye voice. “I was wrong when I said I was both and neither. I can’t be; I know that now. I have to choose.�
“Wait a minute,� Ben says. “Cassie, this guy is one of them?�
“It’s complicated,� I answer. “We’ll go over it later.� I grab Evan’s hand in both of mine and press it against my chest. “Don’t leave me again.�
“You left me, remember?� He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.
I give in. What am I going to do, put a gun to his head? He’s gotten this far, I tell myself. He’ll get the rest of the way.
“What’s due north?� I ask, pushing against his fingers.
“I don’t know. But it’s the shortest path to the farthest spot.�
“The farthest spot from what?�
“From here. Wait for the plane. When the plane takes off, run. Ben, do you think you can run?�
“I think so.�
“Run fast?�
“Yes.� He doesn’t sound too confident about it, though.
“Wait for the plane,� Evan whispers. “Don’t forget.�
He kisses me hard on the mouth, and then the stairwell goes all Evanless.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn’t think ‘usâ€� because I didn’t feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Love in the Time of Global Warming

“But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“The sacrifice ‘ofâ€� self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘forâ€� self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”
― James Baldwin

“In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they MUST lose and that the other MUST winâ€� Both MUST win!”
― Nabil N. Jamal

“I am the other.”
― Gérard de Nerval, Selected Writings

“She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“Time did exist here, in small amounts (well some of the time) â€� and there were feint eddies and currents of time here, things that were barely tangible. Feint forces of the universe they were, nearly indiscernible from the nothingness like a warm breeze on a hot summer night. How long he had been here, he knew not â€� but he was slowly learning to master these barely tangible waves like a new surfer with one foot on the sandy beach and the other on a shiny new board of Hatred. Revenge splashed around his feet like the cold waves of the ocean of Time. Nearby, two other inmates collided with each other, bounced apart spread-eagled and spiraled off into the distance in infinite slowness. The Wetsuit of Insanity clung to his spiritual body, isolating him from the timelessness that seemed to exist here. A wind of Change blew at him from behind and he pushed off from the beach with iron determination and a mental clarity hereto before unknown to him. Something in the microcosm that didn’t even have a name went ‘blingâ€� and against all the laws of probability, Brad Xyl opened his eyes.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“You know who you are. You have always been other.”
― Brunonia Barry, The Fifth Petal

“Nobody seems to know which came first; egg or chicken â€� except of course for agents of the Time Saving Agency â€� who can find out anything about, well â€� anything. The only trouble is, they aren’t talking â€� however, you can take it from me â€� they know. The answer to these and other puzzles are kept safe and secure behind fire-walls and thick security doors secured with, er â€� time-locks, where one could possibly find answers to many other troubling questions, and not all of them necessarily relating to chickens.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“What is the nature of Othering's comfort, its allure, its power (social, psychological, or economical)? Is it the thrill of belonging - which implies being part of something bigger than one's solo self, and therefore stronger? My initial view leans toward the social/psychological need for a "stranger," an Other in order to define the estranged self (the crowd seeker is always the lonely one).”
― Toni Morrison

“Looks like they went crazy and started cacking each other.â€� Lisa said to me as we walked through the ship, searching for a single survivor. There were what looked to be barricades in the corridors. The elevator doors were shot through from the inside. So were the sides and the roof!”
― Christina Engela, Space Vacation

“What's make you think that people will other type of clothes are special??
I can go to the shop buy such clothes and what??? Now I am important??”
― Deyth Banger

“One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“RSL has more star-liners than any other company, and covers every commercial route in known space. Demeter is one of the biggest, carrying up to 4500 passengers and crew at any single point on its never-ending, circular cruise around the Terran Empire. And me? Where do I fit in? My name is Sean Lange, and you will probably have never heard of me. It’s sad somehow, I always wanted to leave some kind of a legacy in this life, and perhaps to be remembered. Instead, circumstances have arranged it so that this is probably the last time I will ever use that name.”
― Christina Engela, Space Vacation

“Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos!
This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three days ago, fleeing in humiliating shame, those three days a constant running battle. For three days the accursed Imperial ship Indomitable had followed, firing on them at every opportunity. Death or imprisonment now awaited those who called themselves Corsairs â€� and though this death was now more certain rather than just a possibility, Sona Kilroy, or “The Hammerâ€� as he was called by his men, was not prepared to give up his freedom so easily. Piracy was his life and he’d known no other. He was tough and cruel, a despicable man, a case in point when academics quoted the barbarism by which the Corsairs had made themselves known and feared across the star systems of the peaceful Terran Empire.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

“On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil come voting day, wanted to be fair and just â€� or at least appear that way. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there was little love lost between Imperial troops and the locals who viewed each other with little short of open hostility, and often through the sighting devices attached to weaponry of various diverse descriptions.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity â€� but they can put out the correct, factual, scientifically and medically accurate information in an attempt to counter the ignorance and to restore the balance.”
― Christina Engela, The Pink Community - The Facts

“Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant’s body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, ‘the Hammerâ€� grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could’ve seen the look on the face of Indomitable’s captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips â€� intent on taking the ship for himself.

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― Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been spectacular. It arose in the European and Middle Eastern imagination in the early Middle Ages and may be attributed in part to the ignorance of much of the world brought about by the breakdown of communications between the Islamic Middle East and what lay beyond it and Christian Europe. It became an axiomatic feature of medieval thinking about the world. It was used, exploited, and reinvented by colonialism in many distinct places in Africa, where it served missionary and colonial interests. The construction of Jewish and Israelite racial and cultural identities was an innate feature of Western colonialism throughout the world. Jews were constructed everywhere--not only in Africa but in Great Britain. The invention or discovery of Israelites reinforced the idea of Europe by providing Europe with a limitless periphery of known and understood racial others. The re-racialization of the world using the Bible as a road map may be seen as an overreliance on the one ethnography, often the one book, that missionaries were familiar with but also as an attempt to "other" the unknown worlds of Africa and Asia with a known, trusted, and malleable "other" of Europe. This discourse is a potent and immanent aspect of the imagined past and the lived present of a surprising number of black Africans and African Americans, as well as millions of other people.”
― Tudor Parfitt, Black Jews in Africa and the Americas