#raise

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#deserve #doing #duty #ought #our

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#basis #close #doubtless #enclosed #formed

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#act #am #answer #crying #did

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.' ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#big #bronx #first #hand #i

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#ask #asking #changed #cheekbones #compare

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#pop #pop art #raised #unspeakable

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#been #ceiling #changes #debt #debt ceiling

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe. ↗

— Lance Bass

#believe #christian #christian church #church #hate

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#author #belong #belongs #betray #ceases

I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#how #i #i think #i was raised #important