#towards

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#heaven #inmost #lord #love #loves

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#free #his #judgement #keep #main

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#lies #meaning #meaning of #our #them

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect. ↗

— George Saunders

#am #been #confidence #dark #dark side

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#basically #catastrophes #everything #headed #major

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound? ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#forward #how #i #images #important

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#hasten #like #make #minutes #our