#served

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#annihilation #care #committed #craft #dependent

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#easier #imperfection #served #small #tolerate

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#element #every #just #preserved #reversed

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#deserved #may #reproach #resentment #show

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader. ↗

— Jim Talent

#business #business world #capacity #effective #ever

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. ↗

— Robert Adams

#evocative #most #observed #probably #television