#line

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#box #burning #cap #connected #day

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#complete #earn #education #eight #fitting

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. ↗

— Drew Carey

#ethic #gave #job #kicks #marines

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them. ↗

— Drew Carey

#get #guess #i #i do #just

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#balance #beauty #cosmos #deepak-chopra #energy

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit. ↗

— David Zucker

#bounds #far #force #i #keeps

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#apply #audience #church #every #happening

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#being #bred #brother #care #discipline

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#came #carry #could #even #every

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#end #happiness #holiness #man