#ria

This is the life making miracle that completes us. Nothing is more challenging or rewarding than this union. Here is humanity in all its glory and devastation. This is that which makes and breaks nations. And so the greatest saints are those heroic people that pour themselves into each and change the world. These are the lovers that light up the earth. Children smile, adults believe and God gives the planet another day of sun light. ↗

— Guillermo Escalona

#change

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#appear #barbarians #came #come #curious

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#art #because #command #creation #does

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#delusion #divorce #infidelity #marriage #men

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#austria #both #countries #cultural #france

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#considering #downstream #gas #import #industries

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#heaven #made #marriages #place #some

In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#contact #contributions #effort #groups #how

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. ↗

— Shirley Booth

#director #friend #i #mine #old

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. ↗

— George Borrow

#beneath #i #i am #invariably #people