#gel

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running. ↗

— Martin Lel

#champion #concentrate #convinced #cousin #los

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#angel #faults #friend #love #without

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#ceased #christians #did #find #history

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#mother #politics #specter #totally #uninterested

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel. ↗

— Courtney Love

#angels #around #because #dad #daughter

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ↗

— George MacDonald

#angels #cast #even #flower #friend

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#coming #concerned #drive #got #hugely

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#before #class #confined #educated #goal

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#controls #external #govern #government #greatest