#let

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#anonymous #being #being famous #completely #convenient

It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on the Scripture, and other good books of divinity; because, although these may tend, as well as preaching, to give a good doctrinal or speculative understanding of the word of God, yet they have not an equal tendency to impress them on men's hearts and affections. God hath appointed a particular and lively application of his word, in the preaching of it, as a fit means to affect sinners with the importance of religion, their own misery, the necessity of a remedy, and the glory and sufficiency of a remedy provided; to stir up the pure minds of the saints, quicken their affections by often bringing the great things of religion in their remembrance, and setting them in their proper colours, though they know them, and have been fully instructed in them already. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#gospel #homiletics #preaching #worship #equality

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#core #equal #grown #last #many

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#her #herself #i #i can #killed

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#go #knowing #letting #need #part

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#bring #certainly #changed #citizen #completely

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#athlete #even #evolve #i #imagined

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. ↗

— Megan Fox

#clothes #end #flush #forget #horrible

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#bill clinton #burst #clinton #closets #compass