#lent

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#lord #make #most #must #steward

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#excellent #hath #proportion #some #strangeness

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. ↗

— Howard Barker

#i #i do #personal #plenty #political

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#common people #excellent #keeping #people #quiet

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.' ↗

— James Belushi

#avalanche #celebrity #comes #complicated #death

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#balance #because #character #had #i

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball. ↗

— Tim Hardaway

#great #i #i think #judge #just

Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer. ↗

— James Harden

#being #chance #country #feeling #finalist

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#how #object #talent