#ode

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary. ↗

— Will Carling

#conditioning #different #extraordinary #fitter #guys

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#bed #code #cutting #dinner #eat

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#any #applicable #basic #basic principles #beings

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies. ↗

— Tim Conway

#andy #barney #coming #episode #got

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#even #good #highs #i #keel

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital! ↗

— Stephen Covey

#century #disintegration #family #gap #last

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#her #modern #own #rule #should

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

#going #head #ideas #like #mania