#rio

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint. ↗

— Sophie Kerr

#industrious #lazy #much #prefer #saint

Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#beyond #business #creation #first #friends

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. ↗

— Hans Kung

#bases #different #ethical #evil #good

If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void ↗

— Deanne Williams

#england #historiography #late-antiquity #narrativist #age

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing. ↗

— James Kirkwood

#i #incredible #just #missing #out

Funny is when you're serious. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#serious #you

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ↗

— Grenville Kleiser

#body #days #effort #energetic #laziness

Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#coaches #cup #dealing #energy #five

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#around #baroque #borne #century #civilisation

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. ↗

— Paul Kurtz

#contrary #creatively #death #discovered #eating