#visions

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#born #child #concerned #first #good

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#blessed #eternity #events #foresee #future

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. ↗

— Chuck D.

#anyway #being #bought #computers #difference

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#confronting #divisions #greatest #i #islam

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #divisions #opposed #political #race

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#charity #consists #dreaming #dreams #life

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#bounded #directly #limited #live #men

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divisions #end #few #find #gain