#nit

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#definition #heart #himself #his #imagines

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#first #gospels #narratives #passion #pieces

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. ↗

— William Baldwin

#community #group #i #improve #life

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#block #granite #obstacle #pathway #stepping-stone

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that. ↗

— Christian Bale

#enjoy #i #i do #insanity #like

Ability is of little account without opportunity. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#account #little #opportunity #without

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #ineffectual #novels #passion

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#after #board #bullish #employees #get

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #passion #religion #romance

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#being #beside #cuts #essentially #everything