#iron

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#cold iron #diffuse #efforts #first #frantic

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here. ↗

— Chris Martin

#anyone #beach #because #care #environment

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#buried #during #environment #head #judy

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#comfort #freedom #irony #lose #money

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #comfort #ease #freedom #ironical

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#aim #better #dull #ironies #least

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. ↗

— Theresa May

#britain #create #environment #here #hostile

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit. ↗

— John Mayer

#back #being #between #bit #changes

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#best #creative #creative environment #environment #find

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#activity #architecture #behaviour #believe #change