#person

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. ↗

— William Ames

#essence #far #god #his #manner

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ever #feeling #had #handled #i

I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#always #been #believe #dedicated #effectively

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#anyone #difficult #difficult time #energy #even

I believe that every person is born with talent. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#born #every #i #i believe #i believe that

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#i #met #only #person #read

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#arises #behave #brought #certain #certain way

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies. ↗

— Bille August

#because #film #i #i am #interested

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience