#ible

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#citizenship #common #criminals #enforcement #every

I smoke, isn't that terrible? ↗

— Kate Hudson

#smoke #terrible

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #bone #even #fiber #flesh

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#after #comes #expressing #inexpressible #nearest

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. ↗

— Hypatia

#changeable #fact #fight #get #in fact

It is a bad indication when, in any period, men will so exalt their confessions that they force the Scriptures to a secondary importance, illustrated in one era, when as Tulloch remarks: 'Scripture as a witness, disappeared behind the Augsburg Confession" ...No decrees of councils; no ordinances of synods; no "standard" of doctrines; no creed or confession, is to be urged as authority in forming the opinions of men. They may be valuable for some purposes, but not for this; they may be referred to as interesting parts of history, but not to form the faith of Christians; they may be used in the church to express its belief, not to form it. ↗

— L.S. Chafer

#confession #creed #scripture #theology #faith

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#career #could #crazy #day #every

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. ↗

— Anna Comnena

#carries #ceaseless #created #depths #drowns

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #democratization #east #how #in other words

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#far #i #like #make #many