#wit

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ↗

— John Bunyan

#pray #rather #than #without #words

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#classification #continuity #corresponding #degree #different

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

#behaviour #cannot #characters #history #i

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. ↗

— Albert Camus

#dies #goes #life #rotten #soulless

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#calm #cannot #evaluation #fear #mitigated

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#craziest #doubt #ever #i #met

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#changed #contain #doubt #european #favour

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#city #employees #hired #interference #outside

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#entire #ever #motive #myself #scribbling

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#information #internet #into #just #look