#elite

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. ↗

— Bill Keller

#elite #media #nice #populist #ring

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #israelites #providence #faith

Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good. ↗

— Lora Leigh

#maverick #ops #rissa #love

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#elite #elitism #elitist #meritocracy #politics

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#divided #elite #i #many #think

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#feminist #goals #idea #men #obsolete

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#control #despotic #does #elite #form

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly