#ai

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#age #checks #excess #interest #later

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true "peace message" that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55) ↗

— David R. Smock

#peacebuilding #religion #spirituality #violence #religion

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#gravitated #i #instinct #mixture #naivete

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#away #ever #faith #take #will

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#coming #express #finding #funny #funny people

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room. ↗

— David Cone

#comeback #game #get #handle #i

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her. ↗

— James Hal Cone

#before #believer #black #community #faith

I don't aim to offend. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#i #offend