#mended

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#bible #discovered #i #knew #nothing

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. ↗

— Carl Levin

#caution #constitution #document #great #only

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ↗

— Alfonso X

#before #consulted #creation #embarking #had

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#best #broken #fragments #glue #good

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ↗

— Voltaire

#graces #milton #recommended #sacrifice #sacrificed

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#another #because #betterment #commended #construction

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#always #amended #little #never #said

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. ↗

— Robert Hall

#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent. ↗

— Tim Holden

#chapter #code #commission #contains #family