#quo

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. ↗

— Michael A. Singer

#experience-mistakes-wisdom #experiences #growth #inspirational #life-lessons

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#devoted #dirty #habit #i #i am

Please don't quote me. ↗

— Mike Piazza

#please #quote

There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. ↗

— Samuel Chadwick

#experience

Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#experience

We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#also #article #attorney #been #coming

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#carried #earnestly #end #every #guise

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#intoxicating #let us #liquors #manufacture #midst

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#away #because #brings #children #county

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary #literary men #men #over #parole