#ling

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#death #feeling #just #out #sin

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ↗

— Colin Powell

#achieve #big #big things #develop #excellence

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#best #devised #fruit #fundamental #i

Do not look down with disdain on what Christ spent so much to achieve for you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#agu-jaachynma-n-e #dreams #fulfilling-purpose #higher-life #higher-living

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#ill #speak #willing

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#between #danger #disarm #disarmament #distrust

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. ↗

— Sun Ra

#black #cosmos #dark #dealing #history

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athens #bad #beforehand #deal #everybody

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#controlling #laugh #making #people #very

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#being #calling #family #grew #i