#pen

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#blessed #carry #glimpse #heart #heaven

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#altogether #bed #ceiling #colored #draw

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#deepening #purpose #save #spirit

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#ask #door #find #given #i

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#constitutes #dependence #document #each #executive

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#either #everything #expression #happens #meaning

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#independent #leadership #live #means #need

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#became #film #inexpensive #materials #only

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open. ↗

— Lily Collins

#i #keep #last #may #name