#eli

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#books #certainly #continue #critics #delighted

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#atlantic #delivering #goods #here #ideology

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#delighted #elected #i #obama #voted

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. ↗

— John Acton

#assurance #authority #believes #custom #doing

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#being #certain #continuing #eliminates #else

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#believe #dies #fool #i #i believe

If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus' example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look. ↗

— Greg Carey

#holiness #purity #religion #salvation #courage