#ives

Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#faith #lives #loses #merely #our

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #does #ecological #financial #financial systems

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ↗

— Jacques Delille

#chooses #fate #friends #our #relatives

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#autumn #close #day #early #early morning

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#i #person #sort #time #wife

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beyond #earth #flower #hour #little

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#being #buying #buzz #comes #credit

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me. ↗

— Jerry Bruckheimer

#drives #failure #fear #me