#elle

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#city #excellent #francisco #hard #housing

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#away #bad #come #could #dr

0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#giftedness #grace #art

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#believed #faith #giants #great #history

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#dark #dark side #excellence #flash #moon

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#confidence #excellence #individual #learns #performance

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#am #baggage #bit #britain #carried

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#away #brief #brief moment #butterfly #child

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! ↗

— John Pearson

#affection #best #esteemed #excellent #father