#revere

[Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m. ↗

— John M. Murrin

#midnight-ride #paul-revere #samuel-prescott #equality

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' ↗

— Lao Tzu

#did #good #good leader #great #leader

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny. ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #irreverent-humor

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. ↗

— James Wolcott

#average #average american #conservatives #diner #faith

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. ↗

— William Godwin

#human #owe #reverence #shape

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

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.' ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anyone #friends #gets #heard #hollywood

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

— Norman Mailer

#few #few people #irreverent #people #trust

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever