#gains

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#empowers #everything #weakens #you

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action. ↗

— Jodi Rell

#bigger #bolder #even #faith #focus

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration. ↗

— Edward G. Rendell

#against #division #east #i #make

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#against #bureaucracy #forgive #god #going

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#buildings #classical #contrast #like #medieval

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#concept #each #experiences #focus #idea

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#carries #couple #defender #figure #game

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#against #bed #catalogue #description #fine

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#been #beginnings #cried #dictatorship #else