#august

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#after #august #changes #citing #commission

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#cassandra-clare #infernal-devices #saint-augustine #the-infernal-devices #death

In August most of Europe goes on holiday. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#europe #goes #holiday #most

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#augustine #being #celebrated #ceremony #church

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #bible #experimental #influenced #saint

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#august #best #confidence #corn #doing

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ignorance #prayer

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#education

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. ↗

— John Green

#hazel #heartbreak #privilege #heart

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#aristocracy #art #august #civil #definite