#prop

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#concepts #daily #directly #effect #far

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. ↗

— John Barton

#blind #disregard #good #how #inappropriate

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#appropriate #case #clearly #different #different reasons

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#anything #food #had #oh #proper

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#how #insane #know #man #occasions

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#balance #claims #competing #consideration #deserve

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. ↗

— James Madison

#his #man #may #property #right

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#scribe #word-of-god #experience