We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
JOHN CALVINIt was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
QUENTIN CRISP -
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
TACITUS -
Leaders grasp nettles.
DAVID OGILVY -
I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
BETTY FRIEDAN -
You can’t speak openly about everything.
KEVIN DURANT -
Time never give you a second chance.
THOMAS DAVIS -
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI -
Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
BALTHUS -
We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
NIGEL FARAGE -
Poisoned food will look like nourishment to someone who is starving. The same principle applies to abusive relationships.
ISABEL ROCIO -
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTES -
The most important thing is growing old gracefully.
AUDREY HEPBURN -
It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINO