#vita

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#class #few #lands #other #other lands

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#called #commitment #god #his #invitation

When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#crazy #food #gets #helped #i

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation. ↗

— Kathleen Winsor

#bedroom #belonged #boudoir #except #invitation

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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