#nit

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#eternity #fear #grieve #long #rejoice

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#credentials #hire #impeccable #lived #means

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#based #basic #been #build #center

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#anything #around #been #beginning #fact

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#back #game #hit #i #i think

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#business #business community #community #difficult #difficult task

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#based #christianity #christians #evidence #him

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#ended #good #good things #grateful #i

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #faces #fit #had #me

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#during #encountered #home #households #i