#pond

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. It seemed so fragile, resting there, and such a silence filled the air, the beauty of the moment caused me pain. "What more?" I thought. "There must be more." As if in answer then, I saw one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall. It trembled, then cascaded down to earth just staining gentle brown and, since then, I've felt different. That's all. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#poetry #pondering #simplicity #beauty

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#connecticut #day #defense #every #every day

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#bad #feel #find #i #lot

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. ↗

— John Doolittle

#against #armed #armed forces #both #deepest

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#always #change #entrepreneur #exploits #opportunity

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#difficult #how #information #respond #teach

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now. ↗

— David Elliott

#collecting #doing #gets #ideas #more

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#intuitively #just #part #read #respond