#lent

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#becoming #before #gore #i #life

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#gift #god #talent #you #your

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#armed #because #christian #committed #here

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#endow #evil #fortune #great #greatest

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#purpose #talent #wants

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. ↗

— John Calvin

#barks #coward #dog #god #his

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#democracy #every #greens #how #people

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dead #god #god is dead #him #impossible

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ↗

— Al Capp

#abstract #abstract art #bewildered #product #sold