#ann

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#conform #lifestyle #make #men #must

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it. ↗

— Tom Cole

#back #because #children #doing #harassment

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#communities #like #live #our #participate

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return. ↗

— Robert Collier

#anything #cannot #continually #get #getting

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#almost #art #axiom #bad #being

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cannot #district #doors #down #interests

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#giving #manner #more #than #worth

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#club #come #concert #concert hall #dear

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. ↗

— James Connolly

#cannot #conditions #derives #inspiration #just