#in

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. ↗

— Charles Bent

#christ #come #converse #equally #every

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#enough #having #luck #must #talent

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. ↗

— Sarah Brady

#finds #from time to time #gun #his #how

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest #greatest happiness #greatest number #happiness #legislation

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped! ↗

— Natasha Hamilton

#now #something #stopped #wanna #women

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. ↗

— Robert Benton

#america #being #care #children #close

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea. ↗

— Robert Benton

#best #dialogue #korea #meaningful #movie

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors. ↗

— Robert Benton

#age #certain #certain age #colors #getting

Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves. ↗

— Vinko Vrbanic

#having-fun #man-and-woman #men #roots #wild-rice