#oldness

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ↗

— Dale Turner

#boldness #brakes #lack #make #mistakes

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

#america #awake #backs #body #boldness

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#answering #boldness #classes #confidence #even

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#coldness #desperate #i #me #people

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. ↗

— Jean Genet

#danger #enamored #give #i #idle

[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. ↗

— John Piper

#oldness #age

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#am #ask #boldly #boldness #faith

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#first #girl #love #man #symptom

They can only kill us once. ↗

— Immaculee Ilibagiza

#immortality #holocaust

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#love