Saint Basil Quotes
I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.
Saint Basil
Quotes to Explore
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
Takeshi Kitano
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
Hannibal Buress
Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?
Elizabeth Marvel
I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
Quentin Blake
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
bell hooks
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
Euripides
So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
John Milton
I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.
Saint Basil