#bid

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. ↗

— Jon Voight

#before #country #era #ever #every

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#earth #everything #forbidden #get #heaven

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

#few #few men #highest #men #virtue

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #budget #came #clock #conservatives

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#almost #became #because #day #fiction

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ↗

— Rebecca West

#banned #book #forbid #god #indefensible

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bid #does #enter #his #house

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#god #i #i do #know #myself