#him

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#enemy #friend #him #into #know

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#anything #could #had #hanging #him

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#destroy #does #faith #force #himself

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#gift #gifts #god #him #i

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him. ↗

— Dan Totheroh

#better #course #devil #fixes #gets

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#god #him #love #mind #obey

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#bigger #clearer #himself #his #instant

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bowie #created #david #david bowie #entire

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #caught #ever #good #hand