#del

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true. ↗

— Milton Bradley

#come #delighted #dodger #dreams #fan

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#eyes #head #itself #mobile #model

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#developing #developing world #generation #marshall #marshall plan

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#fear #i #judgment #may #me

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#atheists #back #children #faith #god

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#brand #business #delivering #get #going

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion. ↗

— Max Scheler

#age