#pose

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#experience #government #guard #liberty #most

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#beat #because #bit #feel #get

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money! ↗

— Joe Biden

#government #i #make #money #supposed

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ↗

— Fanny Brice

#forget #know #later #pose #posing

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#been #certainly #i #known #pose

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime