#nw

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#commonwealth #consider #day #desire #fulfilled

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#experience

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ↗

— James Allen

#bound #circumstances #improve #men #remain

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#directors #films #percentage #play #poor

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #famous #giving #good #good advice

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#behalf #laws #petitioner #pray #single

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#created #even #great #insignificant #like

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest. ↗

— David Ginola

#am #been #fit #football #football season