#though

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#agenda #beliefs #cinema #getting #i

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#demands #effort #especially #every #frame

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #established #had #nothing #parents

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#day #field #forever #his #last

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#been #chance #down #either #end

I work with nature, although in completely new terms. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#completely #i #nature #new #terms

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. ↗

— James Rollins

#birthday #book #day #days #figured

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. ↗

— Ray Romano

#enjoyment #even #frustrating #game #golf

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought! ↗

— Cesar Romero

#bolts #broke #business #exporting #father