#worthy

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#answers #because #consideration #easy #educated

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#based #bonding #brotherhood #common #cooperation

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#awards #because #distracted #done #film

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#free world #itself #must #own #past

It's an honor to support such a worthy program.TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#day #family-friendly #game #honor #integrity

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.' ↗

— Zach Braff

#attention #because #believe #discussion #either

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#down #expulsion #future #history #i

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#been #benefactor #confidence #death #die

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#explain #god #grace #i #i do