A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.
BARBARA JANE REYESO jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.
A. A. GILL -
People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
BEN STILLER -
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Help isn’t helpful for the unwilling.
SARAH J. MARVIN -
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
BESSIE COLEMAN -
Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -
And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE -
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
ANDY ROONEY -
Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN -
I like pubs too, but it’s hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to.
ALAN DAVIES -
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
ROBERT GREENE -
Our connection will last – even as we walk down separate, winding paths.
VINCENT JAMES -
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
HAROLD WILSON