#ali

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#art #bay #care #cunning #dart

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#conscious #hearts #moments #only #our

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality. ↗

— José Saramago

#consequences #deeds #forgiveness #immortality #forgiveness

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none ↗

— Alison Weir

#innocent-traitor #katherine-parr #forgiveness

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. ↗

— George C. Williams

#capable #circumstances #darwin #empirical #every

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. ↗

— George C. Williams

#decisions #devising #gradually #help #human

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#actually #been #better #better now #body

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#am #care #characters #could #development

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#bishop #bishops #disappoint #even #how