#amen

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.' ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#courts #doing #establish #ethic #god

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#band #big #did #drums #get

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#apt #man #marriage #single #sufficient

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#decipher #long #new #new testament #norm

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#extremist #fundamentalist #i #just #parody

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#bank #brought #colonial #community #during

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#nationalities #orchestra #temperaments #types

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#anybody #anything #constitutional #constitutional amendment #did

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#basic #consequence #consistently #fundamentals #magical