#nit

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#begins #decisions #denied #importance #important

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people. ↗

— Mike Pence

#deal #first #foremost #governed #i

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#continuous #displaying #finds #get #israel

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices. ↗

— Donna Rice

#case #choices #consequences #god #grant

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#did #i #thought #whatever #writer

I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#humanitarian #i

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. ↗

— Aberjhani

#human-nature #humanity #identity #mirrors #personal-identity

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#bulk #busy #community #foods #fresh

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#cash #caught #celebrities #clubs #exciting