#anti

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#after #antiquity #applied #apply #conscience

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#along #been #decent #evolution #freedom

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#attentions #because #between #free #go

Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#american people #andy #anticipated #attack #being

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#group #i #jazz #liked #lyrics

Falling in love happens many times in our lives. I’m looking on the bright side— I might be one heartbreak away from happily ever after!— Penelope Jones ↗

— Penelope Jones

#hope #inspirational #love #romantic #dreams

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#comes #comparatively #difficult #discipline #experience

We usually get what we anticipate. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#get #usually

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school. ↗

— James Corden

#appear #been #between #confident #difference

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french