#thou

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#creative force #death #force #highest #highly

You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cannot #coward #hero #without #you

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#done #five #foot #four #hair

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. ↗

— Theresa May

#i #indiana #indiana jones #jones #lead

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#having #huge #huge difference #i #i love

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#beside #change #could #first #kissed

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#advances #deliberately #distant #haste #himself

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #instrument #practiced #singer #without