#chin

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching. ↗

— Tiki Barber

#close #come #even #eye #get

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#our #preach #preaching #unless #use

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. ↗

— James Mark Baldwin

#machinery #modification #own #provides

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#i #liked #me #never #onscreen

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ↗

— Milton Berle

#edison #him #lot #owe #television

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere. ↗

— Gary Becker

#chinese #could #elsewhere #greater #lead

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#forget #god #lesson #never #never forget

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. ↗

— Annie Jump Cannon

#also #comprehension #creation #encourages #great

I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I've listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I've listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number of sermons that were a simple proclamation of the gospel of Christ. ↗

— Rich Mullins

#morality #preaching #money