#ld

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#enough #know #old #old enough #people

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#appropriate #become #being #child #children

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#glamour #most #world

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#been #bring #changes #character #characteristics

Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there." ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#because #fail #failure #felt #got

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.' ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#chef #conform #cooking #create #dish

If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#country #i #make #million #our

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion. ↗

— Robert Peel

#could #ever #minister #opinion #public