#apt

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. ↗

— Mike Pence

#big #big government #captain #conservative #conservative movement

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. ↗

— William Penn

#deserve #love #more #must #praise

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources. ↗

— David Petraeus

#bad #bad guy #become #capture #continued

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#earthquake #god #hearing #imperfect #language

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#captain #england #excited #given #i

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#been #both #captain #communications #direct

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#capt #differ #i #lewis #manners

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#capturing #feel #film #i #i feel

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#adapt #age #each #explore #faith