#rut

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar. ↗

— Red Buttons

#i #leave #me #sid #tell

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am. ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-MacPhee

#knitting #truth-of-life #yarnharlot #humor

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#few #lead #little #many #much

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor. ↗

— Chris Christie

#american citizen #between #bureaucrats #care #citizen

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? ↗

— Dick Clark

#about #always #based #ever #father-in-law

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door. ↗

— Mary Higgins Clark

#come #date #door #hate #i

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#american people #condition #fiscal #nation #our

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#awful #brutal #certain #certain time #definite