#ip

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al #chairman #disaster #extensively #find

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' ↗

— Eminem

#been #better #boasting #hip #hip hop

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#armed forces #best #equipped #fighting #fighting forces

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#bag #changed #chip #chips #coming

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich. ↗

— Brian Eno

#comes #complex #complicated #enjoy #equipment

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far. ↗

— John Entwistle

#bottom #down #end #equipment #especially

It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational. ↗

— LaMar Boschman

#worship #worship-leading #art

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#air force #american #back #base #casting

He paused leaning over to lay his lips on hers, “It’s time to feel again. Let me save you from yourself. You were drowning when I found you, but I’m not letting you go, not without a fight.” He kissed her sweetly and moved back standing up and over her. Lena looked up at his out stretched hand. “Take my hand Lena.” He offered and she knew he meant it in a way that went far beyond offering to help her stand. ↗

— Ella Frank

#family-relationships #lovers #family

The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is he who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#truth #beauty