#under

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#conditions #criticism #fixed #laws #life

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. ↗

— Mary Austin

#dry #find #given #help #landmark

Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#anyway #because #challenge #china #clean

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#being #brave #confronting #help #help people

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #feel #get #i #just

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #course #events #influence #least

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#graceful #series #sky #squares #steel

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. ↗

— William Ames

#believed #called #everyone #god #heard

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. ↗

— William Ames

#efficiency #either #god #may #providence