#sm

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. ↗

— Hans Kung

#aggression #bloody #conflicts #even #fanaticism

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes. ↗

— Nomar Garciaparra

#being #feeling #fight #how #i

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#conviction #diagnosis #excessively #extremism #identifiable

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? ↗

— Martin Gardner

#cover #creates #creatures #dancing #god

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#drums #funk #groove #heavy #like

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile. ↗

— Jay Garner

#bellies #chests #damn #day #every

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need? ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#beauty #comes #frown #life #lines

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#always #beauty #being #being responsible #believer

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#america #based #come #experience #fascism

I just want to make people smile. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#just #make #people #smile #want