#low

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. ↗

— Tony Snow

#ability #authority #enterprise #every #flow

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ↗

— Socrates

#art #constant #continue #fall #firm

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. ↗

— Socrates

#following #god #him #life #like

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#because #before #bigger #bros #china

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ↗

— Ikkyu Sojun

#break #breeze #brings #cherry #flowers

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. ↗

— Georg Solti

#entire #i #learning #learning process #memory

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#behind #blow #clock #curtains #dawned

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#acting #actually #allows #creative #creative outlet

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. ↗

— Sophocles

#day #human #human things #lays #lifts