#though

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#always #dominant #expresses #our #result

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.' ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#always #breast cancer #cancer #chance #devastating

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing. ↗

— Charles King

#choir #choirs #church #directed #gospel

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. ↗

— Anne Seward

#eminent #failings #good #just #record

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

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

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#childhood #complex #ever #had #happen

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days. ↗

— George Tenet

#careful #days #difficult #discussion #hear

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#asked #first #i #imagination #necessary

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#know #lying #man #pen #takes