#ed

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#against #always #assistance #beauty #collaborator

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#comprehended #creature #gracious #helpless #his

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#entrusted #light #responsible #talent #while

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#conversion #earth #glorified #god #much

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#brigades #british #civilian #forces #had

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#goes #leverage #most #organizations #our

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#better #budget #find #had #island

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun