#ran

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives. ↗

— Fawn Hall

#details #did #i #initiatives #iran

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

#appropriate #ask #brandy #call #current

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is ‘Daddy.’ Abba is the intimate word of a family circle where that obedient reverence was at the heart of the relationship, whereas Daddy is the familiar word of a family circle from which all thoughts of reverence and obedience have largely disappeared … The best English translation of Abba is simply ‘Dear Father. ↗

— Thomas A. Smail

#christianity #daddy #fatherhood #reverence #translation

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#basin #before #contains #fashion #glacier

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#exaltation #into #less #none #nothing

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #countries #democracy #embrace

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#complete #effort #expect #give #maintain

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#accomplish #adversity #been #come #ever

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#dying #even #favor #function #grant

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#child #granted #happiness #his #maturity