#ndes

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#agreed #been #call #deeper #divine

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#alone #antiquity #away #current #edifice

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#deed #grandest #intention #smallest #than

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

#disposed #indestructible #looks #provisions #states

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#amending #constitution #destructive #dishonorable #i

Gentlemen prefer blondes. ↗

— Anita Loos

#gentlemen #prefer

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#earthly #going #grandest #his #rest

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#blondes #i #i always #i love #latin

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#around #basketball #cameras #come #control

...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#condescension #beauty