#foundations

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#about #begin #being #construct #deeper

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#bad #build #company #dayton #democratic

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#country #everything #foundations #god #i

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great. ↗

— George Carey

#back #christianity #england #foundations #get

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. ↗

— Paul Getty

#built #foundations #great #great american #period

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #foundations #improbable #lies #proof

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#born #built #character #day #did

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#capitalism #donkey #foundations #i #like

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#government #hope #laying #may #outlast

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#desire #experience #firmest #foundations #founded