#see

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#daily #earnestly #heart #his #lean

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#first #first of all #i #kind #lincoln

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#about #acted #around #felt #going

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ↗

— John Donne

#face #grace #hath #i #nor

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#fact #first #habits #half #in fact

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#him #intended #love #means #see

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#collapse #doing #felt #home #like

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#feel #growth #made #organized #science

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#ever #injustice #just #madly #nation