#ge

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. ↗

— James Clavell

#gives #god #intelligence #nature #nothing

He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable. ↗

— George Orwell

#age

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#frailty #old-age #time #age

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#approach #arbitrary #argument #based #between

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#barbarism #civilization #degeneration #directly #gone

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#pleasure #selfishness #age

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

#despise #events #strange #terrible #welcome

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ↗

— John Cleveland

#cain #changed #confine #doom #forced

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#growing-up #maturity #age

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#language #life #matter #poetry