#tent

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#beauty #bible #book #else #english

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#complain #desires #despotism #discontented #his

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#armor #bend #catalyst #cracks #hero

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#attention #come #commonplace #eternity #eyes

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#changes #come #get #intent #interesting

I'm virile, vigorous, and potent! ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#potent #vigorous #virile

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#any #bedding #before #colder #dawn

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#covering #development #different #done #four

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#almighty god #astonished #doing #doing good #god