#shed

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#answered prayers #more #over #prayers #shed

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#britain #catastrophically #diminished #france #germany

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#association #athletic #break #cannot #competed

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#attractions #certainly #cherished #customers #day

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear. ↗

— Steve Bartlett

#bankruptcy #being #fear #file #filing

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#accomplish #accomplished #basketball #basketball court #court

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#excitement #first #great #had #i

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#established #how #i #i do #know