#reach

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#friendship #gentle #listening #reaching-out #sheltered

C’est que l’on a souvent pour ennemis des gens qu’on voudrait avoir pour amis. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#loyalty #treachery #friendship

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bishop #christ #devil #evangelism #evil

Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets. ↗

— Lee Child

#jack-reacher #imagination

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to. ↗

— Lee Child

#life

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. ↗

— William Godwin

#his #loves #reach #reading #within

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#preaching #religion #sin #business