#lend

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blunder #cheer #dangers #every #fail

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

#grace #hereditary #heroic #lends #makes

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#blender #having #kind #like #top

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. ↗

— Robert Shea

#because #focus #generally #goes #lend

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#diversity #into #like #looks #put

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#bible #birds #care #clothes #concern

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly. ↗

— Ben Stein

#banks #burned #good #good times #got

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#destruction #faith #far #found #headlines

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#banks #education #focus #go #infrastructure