#joys

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. ↗

— George Washington

#citizen #defense #down #enjoys #even

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#because #i #i love #joys #life

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#choose #experience #joys #long #our

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#done #enjoys #happy #who

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. ↗

— Seth Godin

#enjoys #game #happy #make #makes

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#common sense #complexities #disappointments #focus #hassles

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#cameras #coffee #come #does #down

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#heaven #joys #nature #perfect #satisfy