#though

If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world. ↗

— Robert Masello

#men

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#ever #friendship #i #loyalty #me

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy. ↗

— Adrienne Barbeau

#always #done #ever #feel #films

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. ↗

— William Banting

#editor #further #i #individual #insignificant

I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#about #american #american movies #cell #cell phone

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#birthdays #children #hate #hated #i

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. ↗

— Eberhard Arnold

#completion #every #god #help #mind

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#adorned #against #before #better #endowments

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas? ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#freedom