#ives

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#defend #freedom #future #god #i

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be prepared #belongs #changes #life #lives

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#concepts #form #gives #god #love

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gives #half #life #man #posterity

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life #own #painter #paintings #soul

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#brings #difficulties #energy #gives #good

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#between #conservatives #difference #dragons #dungeons

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#away #being #consequences #doing #gives

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#best #ever #gives #must #nature

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#i #independent #movie #producers #root