#thou

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#evidence #faith #knowledge #parallel #speaks

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#around #chaps #cowboy #everyone #everything

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#before #flint #force #forth #give

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#concrete #large #limited #need #often

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. ↗

— Ira Glass

#even #good #great #interesting #issue

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#confluence #different #different elements #elements #lyrics

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#copy #geographic #how #i #leaf

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#ahead #get #get married #give #go

Ability is nothing without opportunity. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#nothing #opportunity #without