#his

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. ↗

— Robert Casey

#denied #discovered #even #governor #hearing

The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift. ↗

— Dan T. Cathy

#feel #gift #his #i #i feel

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#asserted #authority #children #during #endeavoured

I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you to be sure, in case this time - out of, say, 10,000 departures I never made it back: although after 50 years together, 2 countries, 3 children, and several former journeys that would put this one to shame you’d think there’d be no need to pause on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty, of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch. ↗

— Peter Bland

#peter-bland #beauty

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

#leave #must #passage #poet #proof

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work. ↗

— Josh Charles

#business #his #i #learned #one thing

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change. ↗

— Koo Stark

#change #embrace #teaches #you

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ↗