#rio

You cannot be certain of what you create. ↗

— Trista DiGiuseppi

#cryptic-cravings #inspirational #mysterious-circumstances #inspirational

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#big #budget #build #exists #happened

What punishment a free people can mete out to its enemy when aroused by unjust attack! Free America was speaking! Mighty America was speaking! I trembled with pride! My America was speaking! ↗

— William Arthur Sirmon

#patriotic #inspirational

If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag. ↗

— Mokhtar Dahari

#inspirational #patriotism #inspirational

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#inspirational #patriotism #inspirational

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business. ↗

— Peter Scott

#battalion #being #being there #business #everybody

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#control #dispute #empowerment #intelligence #men

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#intelligence #mystery #puzzle #trail #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#children #curiosity #knowledge #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#children #curiosity #knowledge #philosophers #philosophy