#render

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. ↗

— Sallust

#despised #even #go #honorable #most

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#assembled #camera #entirely #group #had

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#decision #decision making #into #making #never

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#come #decide #develop #does #go

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. ↗

— David Seabury

#anyone #best #course #discoverable #only

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#called #cringe #defiance #evil #evils

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#friend #holding #image #keep #mirror

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#could #heroes #himself #honest #i