#low

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape. ↗

— Mary Richards

#am #charged #desert #fire #follow

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#cover #exposed #going #government #i

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well. ↗

— Rene Rivkin

#beings #fellow #fellow human beings #human #human beings

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me. ↗

— Chuck Robb

#governor #i #made #make #me

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#bloom #flowers #good #good thing #i

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#allowed #am #because #colonial #could

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bringing #committed #community #country #demonstrate

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#become #conductor #every #every nation #following