#ible

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

#get #had #i #i think #impossible

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#abraham lincoln #choice #conceive #could #i

Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#bible #christian #slave-trade #slavery #age

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#crucible #europe #god #great #melting

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. ↗

— Tom Waits

#continues #culture #enormous #everyone #had

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#association #authorities #become #fact #founded

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#century #extraordinary #half #half century #incredible

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#been #better #creating #destructive #enough

Our main goal is to serve people as quickly as possible. You need to have towers where people need coverage. ↗

— Dan White

#goal #main #main goal #need #our

The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible! ↗

— Pearl White

#broke #built #country #down #finish