#visions

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#cannot #change #consist #constitutions #general

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#divisions #entire #government #i #inhabit

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I see visions. Anyone would." "But you don't believe in them?" Doc asked hopefully. "I don't find it a matter for belief or disbelief," the seer said. "You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks into the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself everytime that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? Don't you see visions?" "No," said Doc. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#nature #visions #beauty

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

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

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

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#i #life #like #lot #my life

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