#deli

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure. ↗

— George W. Bush

#america #american #bringing #delivering #deployed

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#balance #being #compassion #connection #considering

We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#busy #dec #delighted #details #extended

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. ↗

— George Carey

#blessing #fidelity #i #i think #like

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#anything #deliberately #deserve #does #length

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ↗

— Ovid

#often #produces #roses #sharp #thorn

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#crude #delicate #finally #first #nature

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ↗

— Ovid

#been #delights #give #just #refuse

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#delight #did #discovered #goes #great

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!... ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#father-and-son #fidelity #learning #love #pinocchio