#wed

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#degree #died #foreshadowed #his #idea

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#concept #endowed #fair #fair trial #fairly

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ↗

— Socrates

#advice #be happy #become #find #get

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. ↗

— Hope Solo

#father #love #me #much #showed

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#children #fragile #healthy #healthy people #help

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#by the time #flawed #i #professional #time

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #deceiver #flows #gratitude #how

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#corrected #dogmatism #facts #mistakes #pay

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #beings #brad #brad pitt #capable