#lest

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#before #believer #day #dependent #even

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#best #coolest #dad #different #every

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#against #alcoholic #career #cruelest #i

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#hit #me #milestone #more #only

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #atheist #calls #christian #conviction

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #celestial #come #else #every

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. ↗

— Denise Morrison

#giving #help #help people #i #i think

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#been #careers #coolest #coolest thing #done

Blest is that government where no art thrives. ↗

— Thomas Nashe

#blest #government #thrives #where