#is

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. ↗

— J.M.L. Monsabre

#change

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#birth #daughter #given #having #i

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ↗

— Doug Larson

#even #feel #full #like #shoe

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. ↗

— Donald L. Carcieri

#innovation #island #public #public service #recipe

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. ↗

— Robert Casey

#beginning #issue #life #public #public life

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#am #asked #being #chicago #disorienting

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#bible #commands #direct #exhortations #god

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#itself #lawrence #occasion #population #presents

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. ↗

— Quintus Tullius Cicero

#avoid #discussion #meetings #policy #public