#bse

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#been #church #daily #delight #devoted

But I still always felt the absence of a mother. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#always #felt #i #mother #still

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#after #feel #image #look #looking

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#ever #everything #i #life #music

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#been #enough #genius #idea #ideas

I'm obsessed with jackets. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#jackets #obsessed

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present

Observe all men, thyself most. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#most #observe #thyself