#pi

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #prejudice #education

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#clearly #copy #course #disparaging #eyes

All my children inherited perfect pitch. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#children #inherited #perfect #pitch

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#after #capacity #chain #could #events

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#believing #bigger #knew #make #olympics

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#different kinds #fees #get #i #i write

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#author #composition #double #fact #hand

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. ↗

— Ken Follett

#faith #inspirational #religious #faith

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#already #celebrities #facebook #feedback #gets

The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all things spiritual without have it set before you in physical form. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#faith #god #inspiration #joy #life-purpose