#revere

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#better #day #days #deserved #doubt

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#careful #day #each #feared #household

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#consider #human #human body #human mind #mind

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compliment #him #his #kind #lie

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#i tried #life #live #may #my life

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#builds #due #each #factory #man

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. ↗

— Dale Dauten

#enough #failure #learn #possibility #reverence

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#few #few people #irreverent #people #trust