#served

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#attention #come #commonplace #eternity #eyes

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #confident #down #everywhere #fall

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#been #delighted #i #preserved #shows

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #i do #lose #now #often

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#photographs #preserved #rest #separated #then

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#because #been #body #creating #defined

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#conflicts #countries #i #many #military